How Dangerous is the Biggest Explosion in the Universe?
Did NASA Just Discover the Most Powerful Explosion in the Universe?
On October 30, 1961, humanity had tested the most powerful thermonuclear weapon they had ever built. Known as the Tsar Bomba, it had a mass of 27 thousand Kilograms, and when detonated, produced the equivalent blast of 50 Megatons of TNT. The explosion was so powerful, it produced a mushroom cloud 67 kilometers tall and could be observed over 800 km away from the blast site. The shockwave circled the globe three times and produced an underground seismic wave that did the same. If you lived within 800 kilometers of the blast, your windows would have shattered from the explosion.
But humanity’s largest explosion, with all of its destructive power, doesn’t even begin to compare to the amount of energy produced by what I’m about to tell you.
In January 2020, Scientists published their study of the biggest explosion witnessed by humanity in the Astrophysics Journal.
The scientists combined data collected from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s XMM-Newton, Murchison Widefield Array, and the Giant MetreWave Telescope to produce a composite image of this enormously destructive feat.
Located in the Ophiucus galaxy cluster about 390 Million Lightyears away from Earth, scientists have been suspecting that this cluster’s central galaxy, or rather the supermassive black hole in the central galaxy, might have been erupting with jets of superheated charged particles, sending them out into the void at nearly the speed of light. When the evidence finally came, the authors of the paper were astonished at the scale and power of this explosion, which beats the previous largest explosion by a factor of five. The black hole has been erupting for millions of years, its voracious appetite fed by nearby clouds of gas and dust, continuously giving it more and more fuel for it to jettison deep into space. The blast is estimated to have produced an amount of energy equivalent to 1.2 * 10 ^ 39 megatons, that is a 10 followed by 39 zeros, or one Duodecillion times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba. The cavity left by the massive cluster is more than 700,000 light-years across, a diameter large enough to hold our own milky way galaxy side by side 7 times over.
What the universe is able to do at these scales is astounding, and almost unimaginable. And we are far off from harnessing or even comprehending the level of power produced by these types of galactic events. But there is a type of civilization that can harness the energy produced on that level. Make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so that you don’t miss my next video about what it would take for humanity to become a Type 3 civilization.
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[1] Giacintucci, S., et al. Discovery of a Giant Radio Fossil in the Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster. Feb. 2020. arxiv.org, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a9d.
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On October 30, 1961, humanity had tested the most powerful thermonuclear weapon they had ever built. Known as the Tsar Bomba, it had a mass of 27 thousand Kilograms, and when detonated, produced the equivalent blast of 50 Megatons of TNT. The explosion was so powerful, it produced a mushroom cloud 67 kilometers tall and could be observed over 800 km away from the blast site. The shockwave circled the globe three times and produced an underground seismic wave that did the same. If you lived within 800 kilometers of the blast, your windows would have shattered from the explosion.
But humanity’s largest explosion, with all of its destructive power, doesn’t even begin to compare to the amount of energy produced by what I’m about to tell you.
In January 2020, Scientists published their study of the biggest explosion witnessed by humanity in the Astrophysics Journal.
The scientists combined data collected from NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory, the European Space Agency (ESA)’s XMM-Newton, Murchison Widefield Array, and the Giant MetreWave Telescope to produce a composite image of this enormously destructive feat.
Located in the Ophiucus galaxy cluster about 390 Million Lightyears away from Earth, scientists have been suspecting that this cluster’s central galaxy, or rather the supermassive black hole in the central galaxy, might have been erupting with jets of superheated charged particles, sending them out into the void at nearly the speed of light. When the evidence finally came, the authors of the paper were astonished at the scale and power of this explosion, which beats the previous largest explosion by a factor of five. The black hole has been erupting for millions of years, its voracious appetite fed by nearby clouds of gas and dust, continuously giving it more and more fuel for it to jettison deep into space. The blast is estimated to have produced an amount of energy equivalent to 1.2 * 10 ^ 39 megatons, that is a 10 followed by 39 zeros, or one Duodecillion times more powerful than the Tsar Bomba. The cavity left by the massive cluster is more than 700,000 light-years across, a diameter large enough to hold our own milky way galaxy side by side 7 times over.
What the universe is able to do at these scales is astounding, and almost unimaginable. And we are far off from harnessing or even comprehending the level of power produced by these types of galactic events. But there is a type of civilization that can harness the energy produced on that level. Make sure to subscribe and hit the notification bell so that you don’t miss my next video about what it would take for humanity to become a Type 3 civilization.
#astronomy #science #space #universe #blackhole #galaxycluster
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[1] Giacintucci, S., et al. Discovery of a Giant Radio Fossil in the Ophiuchus Galaxy Cluster. Feb. 2020. arxiv.org, doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab6a9d.
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