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Distant Supernova Is the Most Powerful Ever Detected (osu.edu)
schwit1 writes: Newly published research into a supernova under observation since June has found it to be the most powerful known to modern science. "This one, called ASASSN-15lh, is about 3.8 billion light years away, 200 times more powerful than most supernovas, and twice as bright as the previous record holder. It shines 20 times brighter than the combined output of the Milky Way's 100 billion stars, and in the last six months, it has spewed as much energy as the sun would in 10 lifetimes, says Krzysztof Stanek of the Ohio State University, co-principal investigator of the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) network that spotted the explosion." The explosion doesn't fit well with current theories of supernova energy release, so astronomers are working to figure out its unusual mechanics.
I think I watched this earlier this week on Heroes Reborn!
[Jokes aside, stories like this remind you of just how small a part we play in this big old universe]
It's interesting that the burst was missing the Hydrogen and Helium spectral bands. This is perhaps the most monitored "major" cosmological event near enough to see in realtime.
It wasn't due to systemd because the star behaved according to scientific understanding of star lifecycles.
A systemd star would have some nutty failure mode that inconvenienced a normally predictable local system / galaxy.
I'm not saying that it's aliens... But it's aliens.
it's two black holes merging
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
This could be a magnetar or this could be an event that would prompt the Pierson's Puppeteers to start a massive migration.
You can't handle the truth.
You mean they've already destroyed themselves with supernova weapons so we can't find them?
Minimum threshold fixed. Thanks!
Seriously: If it's that bright can I see it with binoculars? If I am in northern New York, which direction would I look? (Other than 'up')
I have looked all over the place
But you have got my favorite face
Your eyelashes sparkle like gilded grass
And your lips are sweet and slippery like a cherub's bare wet ass
Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings afire
A flying giant friction blast
You walk in clouds of glitter and the sun reflects your eyes
And every time the wind blows, I can smell you in the sky
Your kisses are as wicked as an F-16
And you fuck like a volcano and you're everything to me
Cause you're a human supernova
A solar superman
You're an angel with wings afire
A flying giant friction blast
You're a giant flying friction blast
From TFP: In the 4 months since first detection, ASASSN-15lh radiated (1.1 +/- 0.2) * 10^52 ergs.
If my math is right, that's 10^38 Joules/sec. or 10^35 kWh.
Their version of Donald Trump got elected.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
Systemd stars don't explode. They never let go of annything in their gravitational influence. They are black holes.
At only 3.8 billion miles away, that will hit us in about 5 years, given the speed of light. It looks like the Mayans were right afterall in their prediction of the End of the World. They were just off by five years or so because they had not foreseen the change from the Praetorian calendar to the Julienne calendar in 1066 and they had not accurately computed the speed of light using their Stonehedge calculators.
It's clearly time to sell all our stocks and buy gold to move into a fallout shelter and former nuclear missile silo deep in the Mountains of Iowa!
Finally, this just irrefutably proves the devastating impact of Global Warming once and for all. I blame El Nino, fracking and President Bush, The Lesser. And I wouldn't be surprised if Commander Taco also had a hand in it. And maybe Julian ``Chelsea'' Snowden as well. Oh, and the Gnomes of Munich.
Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this!!!
Error: NSE - No Signature Error
>> Why isn't the mainstream media reporting on this!!!
Because even they know the difference between light years and miles.
I have plenty of common sense, I just choose to ignore it. -- Calvin
If we already detected it then it has already hit us? Or can we see things travelling fast than light speed now.....!
I thought a certain amount of photons in a certain amount of space could by itself collapse into a black hole or tear space or morph into higher wavelength EM or something or other. Like something bad. What are the odds that this did something like that?
BURMA SHAVE!
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Well, any globes in the vicinity of that supernova probably did get pretty darn warm... at least for a while.
#DeleteChrome
Because even they know the difference between light years and miles.
But can they do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs?
#DeleteChrome
It probably had developed humans.
Remember that time you put too much air in that baloon? Then again, in a galaxy, far, far awy ...
Only if it is combined with a Superdome system will it reach the critical mass to power such a cloud bursting, virtual machine tearing assplosion.
If it is too bright and too powerful to be a supernova then logic would seem to say that it isn't a supernova.
Question is, what could it be if it isn't one?
Although IHTFISPs post sounds like a Trump campaign speech (try reading it in Trumps voice, it really works ), he was clearly trying to be funny.
But can they do the Kessel run in 12 parsecs?
Depends on how smart the freighter's GPS (Galactic Positioning System) is at finding shortcuts.
Seriously, how about some meaningful units we can comprehend here? How many times the energy usage of the Library of Congress is this?
Have astronomical theories ever been proven true once reality is looked at?
The article in Newscientist reads somewhat like a tabloid. In one sentence they say "It might be a different exotic object called a magnetar" and in the very next sentence they write "But ASASSN-15lh is more powerful than magnetars can possibly become". Why not just suggest it is MAGIC.
Yes, thanks: it was a failed attempt at satire of the general prevalence of scientific illiteracy that still permeates planet Earth, with no specific target or group of targets in mind. The fact that the modbots marked it as ``offtopic'' teaches me not to waste bandwidth this way in future. Live and learn. Peace.
Error: NSE - No Signature Error
One could add more fantasy to the news speculating that we might be watching the echoes of the Big Bang...
If not the direct image of the explosion. It could be a reflection of the big explosion done billions of light years away by a big complex gravitational lens...
I know what puppeteers and magnetars are, but I didn't think your comment was good enough to mod up.....
If someone really is out to get you, keep commenting, they'll shed their karma downmodding you when you don't deserve to be.
Also, as a moderator, I don't have any axes to grind against anyone, and if I see someone mod you unfairly and I have mod points, I'll mod you up again.
But you're going to have to come up with a better comment than that.
They're real and big
http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2012/12/the-antimatter-supernova-largest-cosmic-explosion-ever-recorded.html