Star falls into black hole NASA reveals images of brightest explosion.

The brightest explosion ever recorded was discovered by NASA space telescopes.

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The dazzling flash, according to astronomers,

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Was likely caused by a dying star

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Collapsing and creating a new black hole.

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Newborn black holes spew forth almost light-speed particles

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Which thereafter emit X-ray and gama-ray radiation.

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Before another gamma-ray explosion this brilliant occurs, it might be decades.

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It's a really special occasion, according to Yvette Cendes

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A postdoctoral scholar at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics and an astronomer.

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