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Astrophysicist Stan Woosley awarded two of astronomy’s top prizes for seminal studies of supernovae
Longtime professor wins the 2026 Shaw Prize in Astronomy and the 2026 Gruber Cosmology Prize back to back
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Astrophysicist Stan Woosley awarded Gruber Cosmology Prize for theoretical work on supernovae
UC Santa Cruz professor shares one of cosmology’s highest honors with Alex Filippenko at UC Berkeley and Ken Nomoto at the University of Tokyo
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Have astronomers spotted an exploding primordial star?
“It’d be great if it’s true, and it might be,” says Stan Woosley, a theorist at the University of California, Santa Cruz who has played a key role in developing models of pair-instability supernovae. Detecting even one such bright example corresponding to a star at the heavy end of the mass range would imply that…
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Some black holes are ‘forbidden,’ ripples in spacetime reveal
“What they’re seeing is pretty much in line with what we predicted,” says Stanford Woosley, a theoretical astrophysicist at the University of California, Santa Cruz (UCSC) who predicted roughly the observed mass range in the early 2000s using theoretical models. “I’m personally very gratified to see it.”