Astronomers suspect that the flare is a a burst of radiation that occurs when a black hole consumes a hapless star, ripping it apart and swallowing it.

Astronomers are continuing to monitor the black hole flare, though its luminescence is fading.

The researchers believe that other similar events may be awaiting discovery in the universe.

A giant star that seems to have wandered too close may have been shredded and devoured in a cosmic meal that produced the most powerful flare of its kind ever seen.

At least, that's the who tracked and studied the 10 billion light-years away.

Released by a black hole a staggering 500 million times the mass of our sun, the flare is considered "the most powerful and most distant flare of energy ever recorded from a supermassive black hole," the research

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