Suspected supernova is 570 billion times as bright as our sun

"Supernovae shape the universe we live in and there are still many unanswered questions about these explosions, even for the common ones," Ben Shappee tells The Washington Post about the most-luminous supernova ever observed. How this object fades will "reveal much more about this event," he adds, so "many groups of astronomers are intensely observing this object." More