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Nature Physics 2, 581 - 582 (2006)
doi:10.1038/nphys387

Astrophysics: An explosion of sound

Teviet Creighton1

  1. Teviet Creighton is at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory, California Institute of Technology, 4800 Oak Grove Drive, Pasadena, California 91109, USA. e-mail: teviet@tapir.caltech.edu

Astrophysicists have proposed that sound waves could drive some of the largest explosions in the Universe. The emerging field of gravitational-wave astronomy might provide a means to listen in.

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