An article published in “The Astrophysical Journal” describes the confirmation that the supernova DES16C2nm is the most distant ever discovered. A team of astronomers led by the University of Southampton used data collected by the Dark Energy Survey (DES) and various telescopes to study it and classify it as a superluminous supernova (SLSN) or hypernova, the brightest and most rare type of supernova. The distance of the exploded star has been estimated at about 10.5 billion light years from Earth.