image: Pseudo-color images showing the host galaxy before the explosion of ASASSN-15lh taken by the Dark Energy Camera (DECam) [Left], and the supernova by the Las Cumbres Observatory Global Telescope Network (LCOGT) 1-meter telescope network [Right]. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Jan. 15, 2016 issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by S. Dong at Peking University in Beijing, China, and colleagues was titled, 'ASASSN-15lh: A highly super-luminous supernova.' view more
Credit: The Dark Energy Survey, B. Shappee and the ASAS-SN team