"In science fiction, there are scenes where a beam is fired at something to destroy it, causing an explosion with debris ...

The largest explosion ever seen in space reveals that black holes are more influential than expected, perhaps sometimes throttling star formation in a galaxy while gobbling up tons of galactic gas.

The biggest explosion ever seen has been spotted in space – and scientists don’t know for sure where it came from. The blast was brighter than almost anything ever seen and has been going on ...

Astronomers have seen the most energetic cosmic explosion yet, which they believe resulted from a gas cloud being disrupted by a supermassive black hole. The explosion (dubbed AT2021lwx) happened ...

ATHENS, Ohio – Scientists have observed the largest explosion in space, a finding that suggests that supermassive black holes – which produced the blast – are a bigger force to be reckoned ...

A SpaceX rocket exploded on Wednesday night (June 18) in Texas during a stationary fire test ahead of an upcoming flight. The space company noted the Starship "experienced a major anomaly” at ...

Click through for a gallery of the biggest space detonations ever, including a deep-space eruption that released thousands of suns’ worth of energy in a few seconds. All images by AP.

The explosion, which released five times more energy than the previous record holder, emanated from a supermassive black hole at the center of a galaxy hundreds of millions of light-years from Earth.

The results will appear in the journal Nature on 9 July 2015. Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the outcomes associated with the biggest explosions to have taken place since the Big Bang.

The explosion (dubbed AT2021lwx) happened billions of light-years away and was first spotted in 2020. But now it’s lasted over three years, indicating the sheer amount of material involved in ...

The biggest explosion ever seen has been spotted in space – and scientists don’t know for sure where it came from. The blast was brighter than almost anything ever seen and has been going on ...

ATHENS, Ohio – Scientists have observed the largest explosion in space, a finding that suggests that supermassive black holes – which produced the blast – are a bigger force to be reckoned ...