This black hole released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns

Black holes are certainly one of the most powerful structures in the universe. And if you still had any doubts about that, astronomers have observed a black hole that released energy equivalent to 10,000 billion suns, which is a first.

Thus, at the heart of galaxies are supermassive black holes, which absorb huge amounts of matter. And one of them became, for a moment, the brightest of all.

This discovery was revealed in the journal Nature Astronomy. With the help of cameras of the Zwicky Transient Facility at the Palomar Observatory in the United States, astronomers were looking for objects whose brightness changes rapidly.

And that is how they discovered J2245+3743, a supermassive black hole located about 10 billion light-years from Earth with a mass equivalent to 500 million suns. And during their observations, they estimated that J2245+3743 had become 30 times brighter than all other black holes, with an estimated energy of 10,000 billion suns. 

Of course, such an event raises many questions, particularly regarding its origin. And based on various studies, astronomers believe that a star must have approached this black hole too closely, until gravity distorted it. And that's not all, because for such power to be released, this star must be 30 times heavier than the Sun.

This discovery shows that space is still full of mysteries, and that numerous cosmic events take place there. Thus, it seems possible that similar discoveries will be made in the coming years, allowing us to better understand this world that surrounds us.