When a Black Hole Ate a Star the Size of 30 Suns

Astronomers just found the brightest black hole flare ever — from a feast that began 10 billion years ago

A black hole is one of the strangest things in the universe — at least among the things we know about.

If Shakespeare had studied astrophysics, he might have said, “There are weirder things in the cosmos than are dreamt of in your philosophy.”

Even among black holes, some are stranger than others. Thanks in part to the research done for Christopher Nolan’…