NASA scientists reported that "the outbreak of the century" in the universe - the Russian Newspaper

The brightest flash in the universe in this century have documented American astronomers from NASA. According to scientists, it could be observed even with binoculars from Earth.

unique cosmic event happened back on April 27. Cataclysm occurred in the zodiacal constellation of Leo, in a galaxy located in the 3.8 billion light years from Earth.

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outbreak was caused by the unprecedented release of electromagnetic radiation and the formation of a supermassive black hole. As explained by scientists, it is about the strongest gamma-ray bursts, which occurred as a result of the death of a distant star. Sveta exhausted material for thermonuclear reactions, and lost its mechanical stability and began to shrink to the center, it has evolved into a massive black hole.

Astronomers call the incident “a flash of the century”, the largest and most vibrant in the last 20 years. “This phenomenon can be seen once or twice in a hundred years”, – said the head of NASA’s Astrophysics management Paul Hertz.

According to scientists, ever wear of gamma radiation on the Hubble Space Telescope “Fermi” did not fix anything like that. Experts watching spectacular process for nearly 20 hours, according to ITAR-TASS.

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