Astronomers have recently detected a black hole in an unusual part of its galaxy, tearing apart a nearby star. 4 Reviews ← exclude selected types ← exclude selected tagsWhile supermassive black holes are generally found at the centers of galaxies, some are located elsewhere. And recently, astronomers have detected a bright flare at the edge of a galaxy, caused by a star that came too close to a black hole. According to astronomers, this black hole has a mass one million times that of the Sun and is located about 750 million light-years from Earth, in the galaxy WISEA J014656.04-152214.7. And according to Robert Stein, a research fellow at the University of Maryland, College Park and NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland, this was caused by a star being torn apart by the black hole: