{"id":224612,"date":"2025-11-06T01:16:17","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:16:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/most-powerful-black-hole-flare-ever-recorded-shone-like-10-trillion-suns"},"modified":"2025-11-06T01:16:17","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T07:16:17","slug":"most-powerful-black-hole-flare-ever-recorded-shone-like-10-trillion-suns","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/11\/most-powerful-black-hole-flare-ever-recorded-shone-like-10-trillion-suns","title":{"rendered":"Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-powerful-black-hole-flare-ever-recorded-shone-like-10-trillion-suns.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In a flare of light that traveled for 10 billion years to reach us, astronomers have identified the most powerful and most distant blaze of energy ever recorded from a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/black-holes\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_self\">black hole<\/a>, an eruption whose peak shone with the power of 10 trillion Suns.<\/p>\n<p>The cause of this colossal event, says a team led by astrophysicist Matthew Graham of Caltech, was likely a supermassive black hole 500 million times the mass of the Sun devouring an unlucky star that flew a little too close to the powerful gravity well at the center of a distant galaxy. These black hole feasts are known as tidal disruption events (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/we-ve-just-caught-the-immediate-aftermath-of-a-black-hole-tearing-apart-a-star\">TDEs<\/a>).<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe energetics show this object is very far away and very bright,\u201d <a href=\"https:\/\/www.caltech.edu\/about\/news\/black-hole-flare-is-biggest-and-most-distant-seen\">Graham says<\/a>. \u201cThis is unlike any AGN [active galactic nucleus] we\u2019ve ever seen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a flare of light that traveled for 10 billion years to reach us, astronomers have identified the most powerful and most distant blaze of energy ever recorded from a black hole, an eruption whose peak shone with the power of 10 trillion Suns. The cause of this colossal event, says a team led by [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-224612","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224612","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=224612"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/224612\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=224612"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=224612"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=224612"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}