South African telescope helps unveil ‘the most powerful supernova discovered in human history’

At its peak‚ it “shone with 570-billion times the brightness of the Sun”. “If that statistic does not impress‚ consider that this luminosity level is approximately 20 times the entire output of the 100-billion stars comprising our Milky Way galaxy‚” researchers said.And a telescope in South Africa help record ASASSN-15lh as “the most powerful supernova discovered in human history”‚ according to Subo Dong‚ an astronomer at the Kavli Institute for Astronomy and Astrophysics (KIAA) at Peking Unive...