Recently, and somewhat by accident, scientists from England came across what is the largest cosmic explosion ever.
– When I told our team about the numbers they were all very shocked, Doctor Philip Wiseman, astronomer at the University of Southampton, tells The Guardian.
It is he who has led the group that has now made the historic observation.
The explosion in space, which has been named “AT2021lwx”, is the largest ever.
After making the discovery, and being shocked by its size, Wiseman and his team asked themselves the question: How do you actually explain how big this explosion is?
This is what they ended up with:
– We have estimated that it is a fireball that is 100 times as large as the solar systemthe solar systemThe solar system consists of the Sun and all bodies and matter held in place by the Sun’s gravitational force. with a brightness 2 trillion times stronger than the sun, Wisemann tells the British newspaper.
Scientists believe the explosion is the result of a gas cloud, possibly several, a thousand times the size of the Sun, being sucked into a massive sort hullsort hullA black hole is a region of space where the gravitational forces are so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape..
The gigantic reaction is said to have occurred eight billion light-years away from Earth, and the discovery was somewhat accidental.
Because the explosion was first discovered in 2020, by American space scientists, but what they saw then did not stand out significantly.
– The explosion went unnoticed for a year, but it gradually became brighter, says Wiseman.
It was a follow-up observation that led to the discovery of the almost unimaginably large observation.
2023-05-13 00:20:00
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