Biggest black hole ever detected gobbles up star — now bright as 10 trillion suns

It was a “light” meal for this star destroyer.

A black hole ate its way into the record books after devouring a star and creating a celestial outburst that burned with the light of a trillion suns, per an illuminating study published in the journal Nature Astronomy.

This black hole flare, as the event is known, was the largest ever recorded, Space.com reported.

“This is really a one-in-a-million object,” said lead author Matthew Graham, a research professor of astronomy at the California Institute of Technology, NBC News reported.

First discovered in 2018 during a sky survey, the flare (not pictured) was described as a “particularly bright object,” but scientists weren’t able to glean much beyond that during followup observations. via REUTERS

Discovered by the Zwicky Transient Fac