American scientists have recorded the brightest flash ever from a supermassive black hole, whose light is comparable to 10 trillion suns. About this write Associated Press, citing a report by astronomers.
Such flares could occur due to the intersection of magnetic fields or interference with gas accretion disks located around the black hole, the researchers explain.
“At first, we really didn't believe the energy numbers (from the fire),” said Caltech professor Matthew Graham.
The scientist clarified that the last time an outbreak was recorded was in 2018. Since then, the scale of the cosmic phenomenon has increased 40 times.
Experts believe that the cause of the explosion was a large star exploding as it approached the black hole.
According to them, the moment of the explosion was recorded at a distance of 10 billion light years from Earth, making the flash not only the brightest, but also the farthest in the entire history of observations.
This discovery will allow scientists to “probe the interactions of supermassive black holes with their environments in the early stages of the Universe,” explains Joseph Michael of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
