Four telescopes have recorded an explosion from a supermassive black hole in the center of a galaxy 390 million light years away, considered the largest explosion seen in the Universe since the Big Bang .
Not surprisingly, the cataclysm released five times more energy than the previous record holder.
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The explosion occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, about 390 million light-years from Earth . The discovery was made with four telescopes; NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton, Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in Western Australia and the Metrewave Giant Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India.
As explained by Melanie Johnston-Hollitt , from the Curtin University node of the International Center for Radio Astronomy Research (ICRAR):
We’ve seen outbursts at the centers of galaxies before, but this one is really huge. And we don’t know why it is so big. But it happened very slowly, like a slow-motion explosion that took place over hundreds of millions of years.