This essay presents ASA Digital Art’s own hypothesis. It is not a published finding. We suggest that the fragments fell as a shower concentrated over one region of the joined Brazil–Africa landmass, and that so tight a concentration might point to a supernova in a nearby star.
Part of this idea has a published counterpart. Haggerty favors a single body, and the two deposits lie on crust that was once continuous[1,2,3]. The link to a nearby supernova is our own; it does not appear in the sources.
ASA Digital Art’s theory: based on our own research and analysis, the pores and holes in carbonado could be plasma channels formed as fragments passed through the atmosphere. ASA Digital Art’s observation: some features on our own specimens are rounded with a hole at the center, which we read as possible support for the idea. Neither proves anything, and our specimens are not identified as carbonado.
The published explanations differ. Haggerty attributes the pores to the escape of interstellar hydrogen, not atmospheric entry[3], and notes that many surface pits and microcraters are younger than the patina, implying more than one process[3]. Other researchers explain porosity through growth from fluids[4].
A further caution concerns boreholes. Marine organisms such as sponges, bivalves and worms bore into hard substrates, a process known as bioerosion[5]. Holes in rock recovered from former sea floor can therefore have biological causes, and any pore in a specimen of unknown origin must be weighed against that possibility.