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Re:Antimatter Triggers Largest Explosion Ever Recorded in Un... by strick on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @09:45AM (#1282143)
From the comments it seems that 'bigger' equals mass, and 'fifty times the size' refers to volume. I was confused too.
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Re:Antimatter Triggers Largest Explosion Ever Recorded in Un... by lutorm on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @12:30PM (#1282608)
That's probably true, but there's also the fact that the majority of the mass of the star escapes as gamma rays and neutrinos, so mass isn't (locally) conserved in these events.
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