An international team of scientists has detected the biggest explosion in the universe since the big bang — a blast from a supermassive black hole at the centre of the Ophiuchus galaxy cluster, 390 million light years away.
The colossal explosion, five times bigger than anything observed before, was discovered using four telescopes, including the Giant Metrewave Radio Telescope (GMRT) in Pune. The other three were Nasa’s Chandra X-ray observatory, ESA’s XMM-Newton and the Murchison Widefield Array (MWA) in western Australia.
