Supermassive black hole dubbed 'Scary Barbie' is tearing apart a giant star

Supermassive black holes are known to be enormous objects that gobble up stars and spit out the cosmic remnants across the universe. But astronomers have now detected one that has such tremendous power it has produced one of the brightest displays ever seen. The remote object, dubbed'Scary Barbie' in a nod to its'absurd' and'terrifying' characteristics, has already burned incandescently for more than two years and shows no sign of sputtering out. If you take a typical supernova and multiply it a thousand times, we're still not at how bright this is -- and supernovas are among the most luminous objects in the sky,' said Danny Milisavljevic, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy in Purdue University's College of Science. 'This is the most energetic phenomenon I have ever encountered.'