A mysterious black hole in a distant galaxy just woke up after decades of silence—and it’s putting on a cosmic light show!

Researchers have spent the past few years watching a black hole re-awaken roughly 300 million light-years away from Earth.

A supermassive black hole dormant for decades has just awakened in a distant galaxy. This sudden activation provides a unique opportunity to study the behavior of these cosmic giants in real time.

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Credit: ESO/C. Marconcini et al. A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope.

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A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact ...

"This pushes our models to their limits and challenges our existing ideas about how these X-ray flashes are being generated." ...

A distant galaxy is home to a ravenous supermassive black hole that appears to be playing with its food in a lively new image from the Very Large Telescope. Located over 12 million light-years ...

Watching this strange behavior unfold in real time offers a unique opportunity to learn more about these powerful events and the mysterious behavior of massive black holes. Although we know that ...