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#Astronomy; The largest stellar explosion recorded. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com

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🗓️ 13 May 2023

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#Astronomy; The largest stellar explosion recorded. Bob Zimmerman BehindtheBlack.com
https://behindtheblack.com/behind-the-black/points-of-information/astronomers-find-largest-explosion-yet-discovered/

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0:00.0

this is cbsi in the world bob zirma

0:07.0

and he keeps the website behind the black and he introduces us to a discovery

0:11.0

astronomers have discovered a very very very large explosion how big bob

0:17.0

this is the largest stellar or maybe not stellar explosion yet detected

0:24.0

using a larger variety of telescopes on the ground and orbit

0:28.0

uh... scientists confirmed discovery of the largest and longest explosion yet

0:33.0

uh... it occurred more than eight billion light years away

0:37.0

and yet with ten times brighter than any supernova previously recorded and it lasted

0:41.0

it's been last it's been going on now for three years instead of you know supernovas

0:45.0

fade away within a year take less than a year usually but this has been going on now for three years

0:50.0

they think the explosion is related to a supermassive hole

0:56.0

we're surrounded by a vast cloud of dust and the extension of the explosion is because the explosion is interacting with that dust cloud

1:03.0

and causing more explosions more energy release

1:07.0

that's a theory and i will tell you that any series of the story about what caused this explosion are very tentative

1:13.0

uh... they are because the explosion is lasting so long they're able to go on a lot more data acquisition from lots more telescopes

1:21.0

and that i helped them understand this better

1:24.0

uh... i will point out something else too that it doesn't appear that the constellation of stalling satellites

1:30.0

interfered with the astronomers ability to detect this very distant explosion in any way shape or form

1:35.0

and even though it is the brightest ever ever discovered the discovery part on the sky it's so far away

1:41.0

it's very dim in fact

1:42.0

they only know it's that powerful because they know how far away it was

1:46.0

and so the amount of light that the technique needs to be close to us it would be gigantic explosion

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