Assuming Quote by George F. R. Ellis

A supernova is one of the most powerful explosions in the universe. It's so luminous, it can be seen across billions of light years.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

We look at distant exploding stars called supernovae, and we've developed techniques to measure how far away they are and how fast they're moving…

— Adam Riess

“the universe is big and old and, as a result, rare events happen all the time. Go out some night into the woods or…

— Lawrence M. Krauss

There are lots of ideas which extend the Copernican principle one step further. We went from the solar system to the galaxy to zillions…

— Martin Rees

“When a star goes supernova, the explosion emits enough light to overshadow an entire solar system, even a galaxy. Such explosions can set off…

— Todd Nelsen

“When one looks at the numbers, the situation becomes even more perplexing. The effect of lambda grows steadily with respect to the familiar Newtonian…

— John D. Barrow

With all reserve we advance the view that a supernova represents the transition of an ordinary star into a neutron star consisting mainly of…

— Fritz Zwicky

When we initially proposed LIGO, the only sources that we were really contemplating were supernovae. We thought we would see something like one a…

— Rainer Weiss

“It is generally agreed by modern cosmologist that we have established the general framework of how the universe behaved from when it was just…

— John D. Barrow

These neutrino observations are so exciting and significant that I think we're about to see the birth of an entirely new branch of astronomy:…

— John N. Bahcall

Of course, if you assume a big enough conspiracy, you can explain anything, including the cosmos itself.

— Fritz Leiber

I do not personally want to believe that we already know the equations that determine the evolution and fate of the universe; it would…

— John N. Bahcall