Report: Monster Black Hole's Violent Star Slashing Creates " Brightest Supernova Ever", Scientists Confirm

The brightest supernova ever might have been caused by the explosive death of a star torn apart by a giant black hole; a group of astronomers finds it.

According to SPACE, Supernovas are explosions that can happen when stars die. These outbursts can briefly outshine all of the other stars in their galaxies.

The astronomers have recently discovered a very rare class of supernova, called as super-luminous supernovas. These new class of supernovas explosion are up to 100 times brighter than other supernovas but account for less than one-thousands of all supernovas.

In January, at the time of analyzing data from the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae, scientists have discovered an outburst more than twice brighter as any known supernova.

The astronomers named it ASASSN-15Ih, happened about 3.8 billion light-years from Earthman the border of Southern constellations Indus and Tucana. This reflects off about 570 billion times more light than the sun.

The scientists have suggested that ASASSN-15Ih may have happened under the gravitational pull of a black hole tidal disruption event. They find the composition of elements from the explosion with a tidal disruption event of a low-mass star than with superluminous supernova.

According to General Physics Laboratory report, by analyzing images from Hubble Space Telescope the researchers suggest that the supermassive black hole is caused this explosive outbursts ranged from 200 million to 3 billion times the sun's mass.

The part of the research team, Giorgos Leloudas, an astrophysicist at (WISR) said," The supermassive black hole at the center of ASASSN-15Ih's galaxy was so big that it would have swallowed a star and it could send a star to pieces instead of gulping it downhole.

Meanwhile, the scientists cannot say with full certainty that ASASSN-15Ih was a tidal disruption event. They are unable to give all the details of what they observed.

The lead study author Leloudas said," More clever people can look at the data we publish and come up with theories that can explain the missing pieces".