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- 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.
- 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 latest cosmic display was spotted in 2018 by a camera at the Palomar Observatory in California; it took about three months to reach peak brightness and has been fading since.
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Scientists detect biggest black hole flare ever seen — with the power of 10 trillion suns
