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Title
Brightest supernova isn't?
Abstract
The article reports on the ASASSN-15lh, a discovery by the researchers at All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae led by Giorgos Leloudas at the Weizmann Institute of Science. It mentions that the discovery was categorized as a superluminous supernova, which is an explosion of an extremely massive star at the end of its life. The discovery shows that the process went through three distinct phases within a period of 10 months.