AGN J2245+3743
Recently, astronomers have detected the largest and most distant black hole flare ever recorded, originating from the supermassive black hole in AGN J2245+3743, located 10 billion light-years away.
- The black hole, 500 million times the mass of the Sun, is tearing apart and consuming a star ~30 solar masses, triggering an extreme tidal disruption event (TDE).
- The flare brightened by a factor of 40, reaching 30× the brightness of any previously known black hole flare, and releasing energy equal to 10 trillion suns, surpassing the earlier record-holder “Scary Barbie.”
- Researchers describe the ongoing flare as “a fish only halfway down the whale’s gullet,” ....
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