Biggest cosmic explosion ever detected left huge dent in space
by Hannah Devlin Science correspondent from Science | The Guardian on (#4ZZ3G)
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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