Largest Cosmic Explosion Ever Detected

[The Picnic Wasp]

I read this article today on the BBC News site. The figures for such events in the cosmos are always mind boggling, but this in particular made me wonder if it has been reported correctly, or is my mind putting the point in the wrong place? A light year is 5.88 trillion miles. This super explosive event took place 8 billion light years away. Have I got this right? 8000,000,000 times 5,880,000,000,000. I don't suppose the human mind has a way to process this but I still think I might have absorbed this incorrectly.

[David L]

I read this article today on the BBC News site. The figures for such events in the cosmos are always mind boggling, but this in particular made me wonder if it has been reported correctly, or is my mind putting the point in the wrong place? A light year is 5.88 trillion miles. This super explosive event took place 8 billion light years away. Have I got this right? 8000,000,000 times 5,880,000,000,000. I don't suppose the human mind has a way to process this but I still think I might have absorbed this incorrectly.

Felt by a man in Florida....apparently

[The Picnic Wasp]

I think it's 4.704 x 10 to power 22 which is 47040000000000000000000 miles away, give or take a few hundred yards.

[Slim]

Yes I think that's correct.