Unimaginable scales... A giant cloud of gas, thousands of times larger than the Sun, spiralling in to a supermassive black hole eight billion light years away, heating up to 13,000 degC, and causing a fireball 100x the size of our solar system, with a brightness two trillion times that of the Sun (which is ten times brighter than any known supernova).

https://www.theguardian.com/science/2023/may/12/astronomers-capture-largest-cosmic-explosion-ever-witnessed (3-min read)

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