A supermassive black hole's star snack lit up the cosmos like never before. This artist's concept depicts a supermassive black hole in the process of shredding a massive star--at least 30 times the mass of our Sun--to pieces. Scientists propose this is what happened around the distant black hole referred to as J2245+3743, which in 2018, brightened dramatically to create the brightest black hole flare ever recorded, shining with the light of 10 trillion suns. Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. It's hard to wrap your head around the fundamentals of a black hole .

The team examined digital images of the Northern sky obtained using a k-D tree in 2018 to detect space anomalies through the "nearest neighbour" method. The study is published in New Astronomy. Astronomical discoveries have increased drastically in recent years due to large-scale astronomical surveys. The Zwicky Transient Facility, for example, employs a wide-field view camera to survey the Northern sky, generating 1.4 TB of data each night of observation with its catalogue containing billions of objects. However, processing such colossal quantities of data manually is extremely expensive and time-consuming.