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- Astronomers detected a new type of supernova caused by a black hole interacting with a massive star.
- It is located about 700 million light-years away.
- The star and black hole, each around 10 times the mass of the sun, formed a binary system before the explosion.
- The black hole siphoned off material from the star during a years-long spiral, distorting its shape and possibly triggering its collapse.
- This event released more energy in one second than the sun emits in its entire lifetime, according to researchers.
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