Astronomers using data from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), and other observatories around the world have discovered the most energetic explosions to occur since the Big Bang 13.8 billion years ago.

Black holes, being one of the more annoying space objects, cannot be seen by our observations except when something else interacts with them. For years, we have observed them indirectly through tidal disruption events (TDEs), when gravitational forces of the black hole create "tides" that tear apart a star into giant streams of gas that surround the black hole as debris.

These events are highly energetic, but in a new study, a team from the University of Hawaiʻi’s Institute for Astronomy (IfA) report a new class of event that makes them look puny in comparison. Searching through ESA'

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