News Supernovae take astrophysicist' center stage, UA Astronomer Adam Burrows says in nature.
Supernovae explode with forces of incomprehensible magnitude.
If you write it in numbers, a supernova explodes with something like the force of 25 hundred trillion trillion Megatonnes of TNT . Or, you can think of it as the force of the simultaneous explosion of 25 hundred trillion trillion nuclear weapons. It's its own scale. It would be like taking hundreds of Earths and converting that mass to energy. It would be energy comparable to the total amount of energy the sun radiates in 10 billion years, although the supernova explosion is the energy of motion rather than light.