Washington: Astronomers have observed one of the most powerful and luminous cosmic events ever recorded a colossal flare triggered by a supermassive black hole devouring a massive star in a galaxy billions of light-years away. The event, which has shattered previous energy records, offers new insight into the violent processes that occur when black holes consume stellar material.

The phenomenon, described by researchers as a tidal disruption event, occurred when a star estimated to be 30 to 200 times the mass of the Sun strayed too close to a black hole roughly 300 million times more massive than the Sun. The immense gravitational pull tore the star apart in a process known as “spaghettification,” stretching and compressing it before the remnants spiraled into the black hole. As the ste

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