Astronomers reported that they identified an extremely powerful cosmic explosion as powerful as a billion suns only after seeing its delayed "echo", rather than the initial blast itself (www.space.com)

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[-] hanrahan@slrpnk.net 1 points 2 days ago

10 billion suns... anything but metric /s

I had a YT video playing in the corner of my PC screen the other day with Professor Brian Cox opining about the Fermi Paradox and he mentioned in passing that "the universe is a particularly violent place" seems an understatement now.

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