NASA's Swift Observatory Detects Wandering Black Hole Devouring a Star, Blazing Like 10 Billion Suns

NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory has observed a rare supermassive black hole, located unusually far from a galactic core, as it tore apart and consumed a star. This extraordinary event, known as a tidal disruption event, produced a flare that briefly outshone its entire host galaxy in ultraviolet light, revealing a black hole approximately a million times the Sun's mass.