Witness 50,000 mini supernovas happening every second.

Added: 2026-05-28

[00:00:00]If you look at a EV light source, what you'll see is that it's it's kind of like a globe of like purplish red light.

[00:00:07]And you kind of ask yourself, like, why is that happening? So, we bought an ultrafast camera. What we realized is that after every plasma event, there's a shockwave that goes propagating out into the hydrogen gas. And it's extremely repeatable. And you you think to yourself, there must be like an explanation for this. And there's this formula, the Taylor-von Neumann Zeldovich formula, that explains point source explosions in an environment and like, say, a nuclear blast out to like supernova. So, I took this formula, and it like exactly describes the data. It's just fantastic that we're seeing these like little tiny little supernovas happening in our vessel 50,000 times a second. And is that a fair way to think about this?

[00:00:50]Like creating mini supernova? Yeah, it's actually pretty similar. It's almost like very similar to a like a type 1a supernova, it turns out, where you kind of have an object that just fully evaporates and explodes apart.