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Giant black hole caused ‘brightest supernova’

An intense flare detected last year in a distant galaxy about four billion light years from Earth, considered to be the brightest supernova ever observed, is actually a tidal disruption event (TDE) the destruction of a star by a rapidly spinning supermassive black hole, suggests new research. The findings are based on new astronomical observation …

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December 14, 2016