<div class="" data-article-body="true"><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Scientists have spotted the brightest flare yet from a <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/black-hole-largest-ever-merger-ligo-virgo-kagra-collaboration/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:supermassive black hole;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">supermassive black hole</a></span> that shines with the light of 10 trillion suns.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">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.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The flare came from a supermassive black hole that's 10 billion light years away, making the flash the most distant one observed so far. It hails from a time when the universe was rather young. A light year is nearly 6 trillion miles.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The latest cosmic display was spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar Observatory in California. It took about three months to shine at peak brightness and has been decaying in the years since.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">It likely happened because a large star wandered too close to the black hole and got shredded to pieces.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">"At first, we didn't really believe the numbers about the energy," said study author Matthew Graham with the California Institute of Technology, which operates Palomar.</p><figure class="relative mb-4"><div class="relative"><img alt="This illustration provided by Caltech shows a supermassive black hole shredding a large star to pieces, leading to a bright flare.&amp;nbsp; / Credit: Robert Hurt / AP" loading="lazy" width="960" height="540" decoding="async" data-nimg="1" class="rounded-lg" style="color:transparent" src="https://s.yimg.com/ny/api/res/1.2/PTkEwAm1eAy1AjeAbsFUVw--/YXBwaWQ9aGlnaGxhbmRlcjt3PTk2MDtoPTU0MDtjZj13ZWJw/https://media.zenfs.com/en/cbs_news_897/eeab3ffa600b66d185eb2eb00b11b7cd"><button aria-label="View larger image" class="group absolute bottom-3 right-3 size-10 md:size-[50px] lg:inset-0 lg:size-full lg:bg-transparent" data-ylk="elm:expand;itc:1;sec:image-lightbox;slk:lightbox-open;"><span class="absolute bottom-0 right-0 rounded-full bg-white p-3 opacity-100 shadow-elevation-3 transition-opacity duration-300 group-hover:block group-hover:opacity-100 md:p-[17px] lg:bottom-6 lg:right-6 lg:bg-white/90 lg:p-5 lg:opacity-0 lg:shadow-none"><svg viewbox="0 0 22 22" aria-hidden="true" class="size-4 lg:size-6" width="22" height="22"><path d="M12.372.92c0-.506.41-.916.915-.916L21 0l-.004 7.712a.917.917 0 0 1-1.832 0V3.183l-6.827 6.828-1.349-1.348 6.828-6.828h-4.529a.915.915 0 0 1-.915-.915M1.835 17.816l6.828-6.828 1.349 1.349-6.829 6.827h4.529a.915.915 0 0 1 0 1.831L0 21l.004-7.713a.916.916 0 0 1 1.831 0z"></path></svg></span></button><dialog aria-label="Modal Dialog" aria-modal="true" class="fixed inset-0 z-4 size-full max-h-none max-w-none bg-white hidden"></dialog></div><figcaption class="relative text-sm mt-1 pr-2.5"><div style="max-height:none;overflow:visible">This illustration provided by Caltech shows a supermassive black hole shredding a large star to pieces, leading to a bright flare. / Credit: Robert Hurt / AP</div></figcaption></figure><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The new findings were published Tuesday in the journal <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-025-02699-0?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:Nature Astronomy;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">Nature Astronomy</a>.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Almost every large galaxy, including our Milky Way, has a supermassive black hole at its center. The immense pull of that black hole, which is <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/new-image-milky-way-black-hole-magnetic-fields-event-horizon-telescope/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:surrounded by powerful magnetic fields;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">surrounded by powerful magnetic fields</a></span>, gives the Milky Way its characteristic swirl.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Scientists still aren't sure how <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/nasa-scientists-discover-tipped-over-black-hole/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:supermassive black holes;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">supermassive black holes</a></span> form.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Studying such behemoths can help researchers better understand the <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/sagittarius-a-black-hole-hot-gas-bubble-spinning-astronomers/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:stellar neighborhood;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">stellar neighborhood</a></span> surrounding supermassive black holes. The discovery also allows scientists "to probe the interaction of supermassive black holes with their environments early in the universe," said Joseph Michail with Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, which didn't have a role in the new study. Those early interactions created the cosmos humans now call home.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">The oldest black hole yet discovered was <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/webb-telescope-nasa-discovers-black-hole-galaxy/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:spotted by scientists;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">spotted by scientists</a></span> in March 2024. That supermassive black hole was formed when our 13.8 billion-year-old universe was just 430 million years old. The black hole is at the center of a distant galaxy and is vigorously growing, researchers said.</p><p class="mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words">Another ancient supermassive black hole was <span class="link"><a href="https://www.cbsnews.com/news/oldest-black-hole-found-behemoth-470-million-years-after-big-bang/?ftag=YHF4eb9d17" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank" data-ylk="slk:discovered;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas" class="link ">discovered</a></span> by NASA researchers in 2023. That one was formed about 13.2 billion years ago, making it about 40 million years older than the one found in 2024. 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