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'Unlike any we've ever seen': Record-breaking black hole eruption is brighter than 10 trillion suns

Astronomers spotted a flaring black hole that may be consuming a star at least 30 times more massive than the sun. At its ...
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Black hole blast outshines 10 trillion Suns

A colossal black hole 10 billion light-years away has been caught devouring one of the universe’s biggest stars, unleashing a ...

Saturday Citations: Black hole flare unprecedented; the strength of memories; bugs on the menu

This week, researchers reported finding a spider megacity in a sulfur cave on the Albania-Greece border, and experts say that ...
Nature

Biggest black-hole outburst ever seen records death throes of a star

A ‘superflare’ 10 trillion times brighter than the Sun is confirmed as the record-holder for both luminosity and distance.

Why Our Solar System Shouldn't Fall Into Our Galaxy's Black Hole

In the heart of the Milky Way is a black hole millions of times more massive than our sun, but does that mean we're destined ...

Do black holes really need singularities?

Whenever someone talks about black holes, they almost always talk about the event horizon and the singularity. After all, ...
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'Torn apart by the darkness': What would happen if a human fell into a black hole?

What would a human see and feel while falling into a black hole? In this exclusive excerpt of his new book, "Facing Infinity, ...