[snarkpup]

The energy of ASSASN-15lh is comparable to converting the entire moon to pure energy every 30 seconds.

Let's put this into an official standard. What's that in Olympic swimming pools filled with gasoline per second?

[SharpRightTurn]

“Let’s put this into an official standard. What’s that in Olympic swimming pools filled with gasoline per second?”

I like it.

[MtnClimber]

The sun may not be as spectacular, but Earth will be toast. Probably before the Milky Way galaxy and Andromeda galaxy collision in about 4 billion years

[KarlInOhio]

Let's put this into an official standard. What's that in Olympic swimming pools filled with gasoline per second?

(2.5 million liters / pool) * (34.2 megajoules / liter) per second = 5.8 x 10^11 watts / pool.

2.2 x 10^38 watts / (5.8 x 10^11 watts / pool) = 380 septillion pools per second.

[Steely Tom]

Mass of moon is 7.35x10^22 kg
Speed of light is 2.99792x10^8 m/sec
E = Mc^2 = 6.60x10^39 joules
Olympic pool capacity = 660000 gal
Energy content of gasoline = 1.213x10^8 joules/gal
Gallons of gasoline in mass-energy of moon = 5.44x10^31
Olympic pools full of gasoline per mass-energy of moon = 8.25x10^25.

82.5 septillion Olympic pools worth of gasoline equals the amount of energy you'd get by converting the entire moon to pure energy.

[SpaceBar]

comparable to converting the entire moon to pure energy every 30 seconds

Here's another energy comparison. Little Boy (hiroshima) released the energy equivalent of 600 milligrams of matter.

[Maurice Tift]

The Democrats outlawed the 75W light bulb because it was so hideously powerful that it would make the planet overheat. This supernova is 2 light bulbs where each light bulb is 10 to the 38th power watts.