Scientists have observed the most powerful black hole flare ever recorded , with a brightness equivalent to 10 trillion suns. The flare, detected from a supermassive black hole located 10 billion light-years away, is the most distant and energetic of its kind. The event was first spotted in 2018 and has been ongoing for over seven years.

Matthew Graham , a research professor at the California Institute of Technology, led the study published in the journal Nature Astronomy. He described the flare as "a one-in-a-million object," noting its intensity and duration are unprecedented. The black hole, estimated to be 500 million times the mass of the sun, consumed a star at least 30 times the sun's mass. This process, known as a tidal disruption event, occurs when a star is pulled apart by

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