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Scientists discovered that the bright beam of light observed earlier this year was due to a supermassive black hole located 8.5 billion light-years away devouring an approaching star.

An incredibly bright flash that appeared in the night sky in February was the result of a star straying too close to a supermassive black hole, meeting its untimely end there as it was ripped to shreds.

Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wandered too close to this celestial savage.

Stars that wander too close to a black hole are ripped apart by the incredible tidal forces of the black hole in what is known as a tidal disruption event

By Will Dunham WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole...

WASHINGTON: Astronomers have detected an act of extreme violence more than halfway across the known universe as a black hole shreds a star that wander...

Light that traveled for more than 8.5 billion years to reach us was the last gasp of a dying star as a black hole swallowed it.

The culprit appears to be a supermassive black hole believed to be hundreds of millions of times the mass of our sun located roughly 8.5 billion light years…