Definition of "supernovae" []

• Plural form of supernova. (noun)

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• "Analysis of some of its images of very distant supernovae is giving credence to the idea of dark energy, and that it’s been around a long time, exerting its repulsive force between objects for that entire period."
• "Early in the universe within the first few hundred million years such elements appeared only in the core of these collapsing stars, but some of these stars then went through massive explosions known as supernovae, flinging heavier elements back into the gas in the galaxy."
• "This was worked out by two groups who, in the 1990s, were studying exploding stars called supernovae."