NASA Discovers The BIGGEST Explosion in the Universe

Scientists at NASA just discovered the biggest explosion in the history of the Universe that we can see. It’s big enough to fit 15 milky way galaxies inside. It erupted from a black hole in a galaxy hundreds of millions of light years away.

Astronomers figured it out by using X-ray data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and ESA's XMM-Newton. They also collected radio data from the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) 1in Australia and the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in India.

The humdinger of an explosion that is the subject of this video occurred in the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster that lies about 390 million light years away. In case you’re not sure, galaxy clusters are the biggest structure in the mind bending thing we call ‘The Universe. They contain thousands of galaxies, dark matter and hot gas. Think of it like some melting pot of a city like New York but in Universal terms. It’s one of those place where whatever exists out there, you’re gonna to find it in one of these clusters.

Big Supernova
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Galaxy Cluster Image:
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Hubble image courtesy of NASA/STScI
Spitzer image courtesy of JPL/CalTech
Chandra image courtesy of NASA/CXC/University of Missouri-Kansas City/M.Brodwin et al

X-ray: Chandra: NASA/CXC/NRL/S. Giacintucci, et al., XMM: ESA/XMM; Radio: NCRA/TIFR/GMRT; Infrared: 2MASS/UMass/IPAC-Caltech/NASA/NSF

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Centaurus A Galaxy Explosion
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center
Radio telescope image of jets courtesy of NASA/TANAMI/Müller et al.
Visible light image courtesy of Capella Observatory
Optical/radio/visible image courtesy of Capella Observatory with radio data from Ilana Feain, Tim Cornwell, and Ron Ekers (CSIRO/ATNF), R. Morganti (ASTRON) and N. Junkes (MPIfR)