NASA Identifies Uncommon Black Hole Radiating Like 10 Billion Suns

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NASA's Swift Observatory has documented a nomadic supermassive black hole disintegrating a star located over 30,000 light-years from its galactic core. This black hole, approximately one million times heavier than the Sun, emitted a burst that briefly glowed with the intensity of about 10 billion suns, reaching temperatures close to 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit. The phenomenon was initially detected in November 2025 by the Zwicky Transient Facility in California, with results published on July 27, 2026. Researchers indicate that upcoming surveys may reveal numerous additional concealed, wandering black holes. Disclosure: This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using Ai -assisted tools. ai-generated

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00:00A black hole blazed with the brilliance of about 10 billion suns.

00:04NASA's Swift Observatory watched it happen.

00:06The black hole was tearing apart a star.

00:09But here is the strange part.

00:11It was not sitting at the center of its galaxy.

00:14It was more than 30,000 light years from the center.

00:17That galaxy sits 750 million light years from Earth.

00:21The black hole weighs roughly 1 million times the mass of our sun.

00:25The flare reached about 54,000 degrees Fahrenheit.

00:30For a moment, it outshone the entire galaxy in ultraviolet light.

00:34It was first spotted in November 2025 by the Zwicky Transient Facility at Palomar Observatory in Southern California.

00:42A new artificial intelligence algorithm picked this one out automatically.

00:47Lead author Robert Stein says it looked a lot like a tidal disruption event.

00:51Doctoral student Jonathan Carney says the combination of all this data helped rule out other explanations.

00:57Stein says it must have originated in a galaxy's center.

01:01But not the one it sits beside now.

01:04Carney says the Vera C. Rubin Observatory.

01:06And the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope should find many more.

01:11Disclosure.

01:11This video contains stock footage and content created or enhanced using AI.

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01:19This video contains a lot of information.

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