The blast is estimated to be around two trillion times brighter than the Sun, a researcher said. Read more at straitstimes.com.
PARIS - Astronomers said on Friday they have identified the “largest” cosmic explosion ever observed, a fireball 100 times the size of our Solar System that suddenly began blazing in the distant universe more than three years ago.
But “it basically sat in a database” until being noticed by humans the following year, Mr Wiseman said. That is much farther away than most other new flashes of light in the sky – which means the explosion behind it must be far greater.Astronomers have looked into several possible explanations. The only somewhat comparable bright cosmic event is a quasar, when supermassive black holes swallow huge amounts of gas in the centre of galaxies.
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