If you take a typical supernova and multiply it a thousand times, we re still not at how bright this is, said Danny Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at Purdue University.
A star has never burned brighter and not in the figurative sense. Astronomers have detected the incredible cosmic event they're dubbing "Scary Barbie," which was formed by a massive black hole devouring and spitting out a star.
A distant star, dying a fiery and dramatic death, torn apart by a supermassive black hole in a forgotten corner of the sky. One of the most luminous, energetic, long-lasting transient objects didn’t blaze through the night sky inspiring legends and launching civilizations. Instead, astronomers, acting as celestial supersleuths, uncovered evidence of the star’s death throes where it had hidden undetected for years in a mass of computer-gathered telescope data.
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