The research results achieved by Hiroki Nagakura, a National Astronomical Observatory of Japan (NAOJ) Fellow, and his colleagues were published in “Physical Review Letters” of the American Physical Society on Monday, May 11, 2026. The paper was also selected as a “Featured in Physics” Viewpoint by the journal. The links to the paper and the Featured in Physics article are provided below.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1103\/fksy-1jtw<\/a> This study presents the first detailed investigation of how neutrino oscillations, particularly fast flavor conversions, affect core-collapse supernova explosions using multi-dimensional supernova simulations on the supercomputer Fugaku. We find that neutrino oscillations enhance explosions in lighter stars, while they suppress them in heavier ones. These results provide an important step toward understanding the unresolved mechanism of supernova explosions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
https:\/\/physics.aps.org\/articles\/v19\/66<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n