A 37-member team led by Eric Hsiao, a physicist at FSU, discovered an unusual supernova explosion one-hundred million light years away from Earth. Their research was published in The Astrophysical Journal and helped uncover the origins of the supernovae group.
After using telescopes to collect data in Chile and Spain, the research team saw that the supernova was hitting material surrounding it. “These supernovae can be particularly troublesome because they can mix into the sample of normal supernovae used to study dark energy,” Hsiao said. This finding will guide future research of dark energy.
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