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We have already seen that some supernovae can falter when large amounts of the shocked outgoing material achieve insufficient velocities to escape the developing neutron star. However, can this be so extreme that the supernova fails completely and the star dies alone in the dark?
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Stevenson, D.S. (2014). Death by Fallback. In: Extreme Explosions. Astronomers' Universe. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8136-2_5
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