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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.
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.
I'm not saying that it's aliens... But it's aliens.
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!
You need to go to the southern hemisphere to look it up in the Indus constellation.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASASSN-15lh
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indus_(constellation)
Their version of Donald Trump got elected.
Those who do not learn from commit history are doomed to regress it.
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!!!
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>> 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
By my reckoning, at $0.15 per kWh, that would come to $15,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000, or roughly 800,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times the US national debt. Perhaps, they would allow you to pay this off in installments.
BURMA SHAVE!
...gis sdrawkcab (usually not responding to ACs; don't bother posting as AC)
Actually all they know is that it radiated 3 * 10^47 ergs / degree^2 in *some* direction which happens to contain the Earth. Extrapolating that figure to the whole sphere might be wrong, and could explain the mystery.
The radiation profile and basic light curve over time fit roughly what is expected for this type of supernova but it is much more luminous than expected. It isn't like they are just declaring any suddenly luminous object to be a supernova.
Seriously, how about some meaningful units we can comprehend here? How many times the energy usage of the Library of Congress is this?