SN 2006gy

SN 2006gy

SN 2006gy was a supernova that occurred 240 million light years away in a galaxy called NGC 1260. It was HUGE. The supernova was discovered in September 2006, and stands as far and away the most powerful and brightest ever observed.

Supernova Explosion Appears to Resemble GRB - SN 2008D close to generating a gamma-ray burst

SN 2008D, a supernova explosion detected by NASA’s Swift X-ray
Space Telescope inside the galaxy NGC
2770 on January 9, 2009, might have actually been triggered by
the gravitational collapse of a massive star into a black hole,
say researchers from the Max Planck Institute for Astrophysics,
who claim that the event looked more like an energetic

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