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Most Powerful Black-Hole Flare Ever Recorded Shone Like 10 Trillion Suns


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.

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