Some of the Energy Produced in the Event We Call

question 32

Multiple Choice

Some of the energy produced in the event we call Supernova 1987A was used to blow the star apart. Out of the following places that the energy of this event could go, which absorbed by far the most energy?

• A) the production of huge numbers of neutrinos
• B) the movement of the outer layers of the star in an outward direction
• C) the production of visible light (which could be seen with the naked eye from Earth)
• D) the production of gamma rays
• E) all of the above took roughly the same amount of energy - the energy was pretty evenly divided among them
• Section 23.4: Pulsars and the Discovery of Neutron Stars