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Brightest Black Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shredded a Giant Star

What’s the rarest thing you can see in the universe?” Astronomers now have a contender: a supermassive black hole tearing ...
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Historic Black Hole Flare: Scientists Call It the Largest Ever and as Bright as 10 Trillion Suns

A distant black hole devoured a whole star and burped a massive light flare, as bright as 10 trillion suns. According to a ...
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Scientists detect biggest black hole flare ever seen — with the power of 10 trillion suns

Astronomers have detected the most distant and biggest black hole flare ever seen, the result of a black hole ripping apart ...
New Scientist

A black hole fell into a star – then ate its way out again

A black hole that was eaten by a star seems to have gotten revenge by consuming the star from the inside, producing a gamma-ray burst spotted about 9 billion light-years from Earth. The burst, called ...