Astronomers have detected the biggest explosion in the known universe, and it originated via a super-massive black hole.
While it’s unconfirmed if British rock legends Muse is responsible for the event, what is sure is that Earth is beyond the radius of the explosion, with the fireworks display going off a little over 390 million light-years away in the heart of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster.
The explosion was so large it carved out a crater in the hot gas that could hold 15 Milky Ways, lead author Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington said, as reported by ABC.
The discovery was made using NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, along with a European space observatory and ground telescopes.
The Chandra observed an unusual curved edge around the galaxy cluster, with the two observatories going on to confirm that this was due to an explosion cavity, capable of fitting 15 milky ways.
It’s a scale that makes the power of the death star from Star Wars look positively puny.
It remains to be seen if this will affect Elon Musk’s ambition to launch a space ship into a black hole.
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