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Black Hole Flare Is Biggest and Most Distant Seen

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> "If you convert our entire Sun to energy, using Albert Einstein's famous formula E = mc2, that's how much energy has been pouring out from this flare since we began observing it,"

It's a great journalistic quote, but the implication here is that the star's entire mass is being converted to energy as part of this process, which it very obviously isn't. (The black hole is net-gaining mass as a result of all this.)