Two years on from 'biggest explosion ever' and space still has a massive hole in it
dailystar.co.ukRussia's nuclear forces on 'special alert' in a standoff that could wipe out all life on Earth, it's clear that the world still hasn't learned any lessons from the biggest explosion ever, discovered two years ago this week.On February 27, 2020, astronomers witnessed a cosmic explosion so big that it made a hole the size of 15 Milky Way galaxies in space.
A supermassive black hole in the Ophiuchus star cluster supposedly spat out the blast, which 'dented' a gigantic cloud of space gas.Luckily, Earth was sheltered from the blast as it occurred 390 million light years away.
Instead, we were treated to some spectacular photos of the pink and blue explosion."In some ways, this blast is similar to how the eruption of Mt.
St. Helens in 1980 ripped off the top of the mountain," said Simona Giacintucci of the Naval Research Laboratory in Washington, DC."A key difference is that you could fit 15 Milky Way galaxies in a row into the crater this eruption punched into the cluster's hot gas."Scientists first detected the explosion in 2016 when they spotted an unusual 'curved edge' in an image of the star cluster.
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