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chasil | on: A giant star may have destroyed itself in one of the rarest explosions
There is a wiki on pair-instability supernovas. Antimatter (in the form of positrons) is a key factor.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova

ben_w | parent
My favourite kind of supernova, due to their absurdity.