Brightest Supernova Ever Seen Was Actually Something Much Darker Last year, astronomers recorded the brightest supernova explosion ever seen. Follow up observations now suggest this cataclysmic event wasn’t a supernova at all, but rather, an extremely rare celestial phenomenon involving a supermassive black hole Read more ... and a rather unfortunate star.

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How Bright Can A Supernova Be? Several months ago, a suspected supernova was discovered that had scientists scratching their heads. If confirmed as a supernova, ASASSN-15lh would be twice as luminous and 10 times brighter than the previous record holder, stretching our theories of Read more ... peak supernova brightness. But is this the bright…

Monster Star Explosion Breaks All Records This artwork shows how this supernova might look like in the skies of a hypothetical planet about 10,000 light-years from the blast.

This suspected supernova is 570 billion times brighter than our sun The newly discovered object might be as bright as a supernova can get.

Scientists Find Most Powerful Supernova Ever Seen A team of international scientists has spotted what may be the most luminous supernova ever discovered. WSJ's Monika Auger reports. Photo: Beijing Planetarium/Jin Ma

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This Week in Space: Supernova Reruns, Baby Planets, and Mars Weather Basically, the enormous gravity of a galaxy cluster that sits between us and the supernova bends the light from the supernova, a bit like light bending through a camera lens — in fact, the effect is called “gravitational lensing.” The supernova Read more ... ’s light is bent around that galaxy in a few different d…

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