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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 apart a colossal star and unleashing a flare so luminous it outshines 10 ...
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Astronomers stunned as black hole eruption brighter than 10 trillion Suns sets new cosmic record

Data from the NSF-funded Zwicky Transient Facility pinpointed the energy source: J2245+3743, an active galactic nucleus 500 ...