An animation of the moment NASA spotted a black hole ripping a star apart and the subsequent explosion helps shed light on ...

A gamma-ray burst of a dying star could be the most distant object yet seen in the universe, astronomers say. The exploded star GRB 090429B is 13.14 billion light-years away.

The explosion blasts the material off the surface and away, into space. It took 1300 years for the light from the dwarf nova, as it’s called, to reach the Earth, arriving in 1901.

The mostdistant previous object that could be seen by the naked eye is the galaxy M33,a relatively short 2.9 million light-years from Earth.