Two articles, one published in the journal “Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society” and one in “The Astrophysical Journal Letters”, report as many studies on what was defined as the largest cosmic explosion ever detected. Two teams of researchers studied the data collected with various instruments regarding the event cataloged as AT2021lwx offering two different hypotheses for its cause. Both teams believe that a supermassive black hole about 8 billion light-years from Earth caused that explosion but disagree on what triggered it: one team points to a cloud of gas and dust being violently swallowed while the other team points to a tidal disruption event where a star being devoured.