Article 4ZZ3G Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected left huge dent in space

Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected left huge dent in space

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Hannah Devlin Science correspondent
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Eruption in black hole 390m light years away punched cavity the size of 15 Milky Ways

The biggest cosmic explosion on record has been detected - an event so powerful that it punched a dent the size of 15 Milky Ways in the surrounding space.

The eruption is thought to have originated at a supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, which is about 390m light years from Earth.

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