Most Powerful Explosion Since Big Bang Seen

Most Powerful Explosion Since Big Bang Seen

~!!!~Astronomers calculate this behemoth has consumed almost 600 million times the mass of the sun in order to generate such a powerful explosion// To create the image, X~ray and radio wave data was combined with optical images from the Hubble Space Telescope// The X~rays are shown in blue and were detected by NASA*s Chandra X~Ray Observatory// They indicate the hot gas that makes up most of the mass of this enormous galaxy cluster//

~!!!~Shown in pink are vast cavities each over 600,000 light~years in diameter, blasted out by powerful supersonic jets from the gargantuan galaxy at the very heart of this image// These cavities have displaced a trillion suns* worth of mass and have been filled with magnetized, extremely high~energy electrons emitting radio waves, which were detected by the Very Large Array radio telescope//