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Supermassive black-hole flare is brightest yet
Los Angeles Times
|November 07, 2025
A camera at Palomar Observatory in San Diego County caught the cosmic display.
THIS ILLUSTRATION shows a supermassive black hole shredding a large star, leading to a bright flare.
ROBERT HURT Caltech
Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a supermassive black hole that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.
These bursts of light and energy can come from things like tangled-up magnetic fields or hiccups in the heated gas disks surrounding black holes. The flares help illuminate researchers’ understanding of the black holes within.
This story is from the November 07, 2025 edition of Los Angeles Times.
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