File image: A black hole in outer space. Photo by buradaki / Getty Images. For decades, scientists believed that once this brilliant flare faded, the process was over.

Astronomers have witnessed a distant supermassive black hole devouring its surrounding matter so rapidly that it is "burping" out excess mass at nearly a third of the speed of light.

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