So, just to clarify this tweet…

	Latest in space ⁦@latestinspace⁩ NEWS 🚨: Black Hole formation generates the largest explosion ever seen on Earth Likely the result of a merging neutron star, 2.4 billion light-years away pic.twitter.com/8tWYu8PBK2   10/25/22, 8:47 PM

…the explosion described actually happened 2.4 billion years ago and we are just seining it now. 

Light travels at 186,000 miles/second (the way I learned it, before everything changed to metric), so in 2.4 billion years it travels a very long way.