These cosmic monsters are creating the biggest explosions since the big bang

Space is growing emptier one star at a time. That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are eating stars the size of ten suns.

The vast emptiness of space is growing emptier one star at a time.

That's because 80 billion lightyears from Earth, three cosmic beasts are devouring stars ten times the size of the sun.

In a new study by the University of Hawaii, among others, astronomers scouring through NASA and European Space Agency's data said they had discovered three supermassive black holes. Those behemoths feast on stars of such a size that make the one at the center of the solar system look like a light snack.

The explosions those scientists have recorded, which happened when those black holes shredded and sucked up the fabric of those stars, are the largest since the big bang that created the universe.

“What I think is so exciting about this work is that we’re pushing the upper bounds of what we understand to be the most energetic environments of the universe,” Anna Payne, a staff scientist at the Space Telescope Science Institute and a co-author of the study, said in the NASA article.