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A tribute to Ya.B. Zel’dovich in the occasion of the 100th anniversary of his birth. The three fundamental paradigms for the gamma-ray burst and supernova connections to neutron stars and black holes are outlined.
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Paper was presented at the international conference in honor of Ya.B. Zeldovich 100th Anniversary “Subatomic Particles, Nucleons, Atoms, Universe: Processes and Structure” held in Minsk, Belarus, in March 10–14, 2014. Published by the recommendation of the special Editors: S.Ya. Kilin, R. Ruffini, and G.V. Vereshchagin.
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Ruffini, R. Black holes, supernovae and gamma ray bursts. Astron. Rep. 59, 591–625 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063772915070082
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