I was watching a recent video on detecting a future supernova with our modern telescopes and it mentioned that estimates suggestions that there should be 2 supernovae in our galaxy per century or 1 observable supernova since half of them would be obscured by the Zone of Avoidance. But we haven't seen a supernova since the 1600s. This got me thinking: 1) Even if we can't detect a supernova on the other side of the galaxy in visible light because of the Zone of Avoidance - what about neutrinos? Have we ever detected a neutrino burst that would hint toward a supernova occurring on the other side of the galaxy? If not, does that eliminate the possibility that the other side is enjoying all the fireworks lately or are our current instruments not sensitive enough to detect something like that? 2) What about other nearby galaxies? There's been SN 1987A in the Large Magellanic Cloud and a century before that, there was SN 1885A in Andromeda. And... that seems to be it?…