Sorry for the title, but it is true! Scientists have detected a massive space explosion that is part of an eruption that has occurring for over 100,000,000 years.
Scientists believe that this black hole is a relatively recent phenomena. This event was caused by gravitational energy release, as enormous amounts of matter fell toward a black hole. Most of the matter was swallowed, but some of it was violently ejected before being captured by the black hole. "I was stunned to find that a mass of about 300 million suns was swallowed," said Brian McNamara of Ohio University, lead author of a study on the discovery published in the latest issue of Nature.When you consider that the galaxy where it is being observed is 2.6 billion light years (over 1.5x1022 miles away) away, this event happened when there was little life on the earth and we are just now observing what happened. It is things like this that just make me sit in awe of our universe and the great expanse of it that we can now observe.
