Astronomers witness largest explosion in the universe.
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Astronomers have observed the largest explosion in space, labeled AT2021lwx, which has been raging for at least three years and is ten times brighter than any known supernova. The blast is around 8 billion light-years from Earth and may be the result of a black hole violently disrupting a cloud of gas with a mass thousands of times greater than the sun. The team will now look at the explosion in different wavelengths of light including X-rays to reveal the temperature of the event and what processes are driving it.
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