What Happens in a Core-Collapse Supernova?

How does a failing core lead to collapse, neutrinos, a shock, and an explosion?

Reconstruct the event sequence while separating established measurements from active modelling questions.

A scientific artistic reconstruction of a newborn compact core inside a massive star, surrounded by a turbulent shock front and escaping pale-blue particle field. — Vastward scientific artistic reconstruction. It separates the compact core, shock, and escaping neutrino field for learning; this is not a direct interior photograph or a simulation output.

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