It all started with a small twinkle of stars in the night sky. But the most thorough astronomical observation found that scientists they recorded the largest space explosion what has ever been observed.

It is believed that this stellar episode from a giant gas cloud which was “swallowed” by a supermassive black hole.

Explosion, At a distance of 8 billion light years, it is ten times more blinding than any supernova. recorded so far. It has now been lasting for more than three years, making it the most “active” eruption ever recorded.

“During the year, he remained unnoticed, as he gradually began to become brighter,” the doctor notes. Philip Wiseman, astronomer at the University of Southampton and head of observations. It wasn’t until observations showed how far it was that astronomers began to understand the unimaginably large scale of the astronomical event.

“We calculated that it was one a fireball 100 times the size of our solar system and with a brightness of over 2 trillion times that of the sun. For three years, this episode produced approx. 100 times more energy than the Sun will emit in 10 billion years of its life.explains Wiseman.

The explosion, known as AT2021lwx, is the result of a giant cloud of gas, possibly thousands of times the size of our Sun, being sucked in by the powerful gravitational forces of a supermassive black hole, scientists estimate.

The scientists described their impressive findings in the journal Science. Royal Astronomical Society Monthly Noticesy.

Source: Guardian