novae

The hum is merely the change in the shape of space time by all the gravitational events like block hole creation, mergers, and novae.

The ancient Chinese scroll that a monk wrote noting a super novae from the first century is still operational.

I was about to comment that the correct plural form of nova is novae, but it looks like dictionaries say that both novae and novas are correct.

He should be: he's discussing (astrophysical) novae as an analogy – and those are precisely runaway thermonuclear fusion detonations.

You'd think the author would have at least glanced at the Wikipedia article about novae.

I am guessing it has to be a supernova on account of there being many novae discovered/observed each year.

Is it massive enough to form a black hole when it collapses or not massive enough so it only goes super novae instead?

Not to mention variable stars, novae, occultation by dust clouds, etc.

I think we can safely write code without collisions until the sun goes super novae.

Light lensing was used to confirm relativity by looking for multiple super novae signatures from the same event, which passed by large black holes on their way here!

The article actually quite wrong here: kilonovae are so named because they yield ~1000 times the peak luminosity of classical novae (~1e8 Lsun vs ~1e5 Lsun), not supernovae.

For that matter, supernovae are themselves also named that way because their peak luminosities far exceed that of classical novae (with the most luminous recorded being >1e11 Lsun).

"it is interesting that all the heavy elements in the earth we are told come from a super novae" The origin of heavy elements is actually more complex than that.

There is also some discussion of "recurrent novae," faint and fast "dwarf novae," and simulations of triggering mechanisms that could produce nova-level energy releases from stars interacting with phenomena like interstellar dust clouds but I'm not sure if the scales of any of those match what the ancient peoples described or if the simulations results are even plausible.