Star-Shredding Spectacle: NASA Reveals Brightest Black Hole Blasts Since the Big Bang

Supermassive black holes usually lurk unseen, but when an unlucky star drifts too close they ignite titanic outbursts brighter than 100 supernovae. By mixing NASA, ESA, and ground-based data, astronomers caught three of these rare “extreme nuclear transients,” including the cheekily named “Barbie,” watching dormant galactic cores binge on stars three-to-ten times the Sun’s mass […] Read More