Star-eating black hole unleashes most energetic flare ever seen emanating from a supermassive black hole, apparently caused when this celestial beast shredded and swallowed a huge star that strayed too close.
https://www.reuters.com/science/star-eating-black-hole-unleashes-record-setting-energetic-flare-2025-11-04/
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My tiny brain can’t comprehend the scale and magnitude of such a thing…
>Flare was 10 trillion times brighter than the sun
>Black hole roughly 300 million times the mass of the sun
Like, what?!…
And I feel bad because I ate an entire family size bag of peanut M&Ms.
If you think about it, the black hole shredded the huge star, but more than likely, that same star also had a planetary system around it as well. All those worlds, their unique composition, any lifeforms, their history, gone.