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21 hours agoBiggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star
A black hole devoured a ≥30-solar-mass star, producing a flare 30 times more luminous than any previously detected, reaching over 10 trillion Suns.
Scientists have documented the most energetic flare ever observed emanating from a supermassive black hole, a cataclysmic event that briefly shone with the light of 10 trillion suns. The new findings were published on Tuesday in the journal Nature Astronomy, with astronomer Matthew Graham of the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) leading the study.