Rare blurring of black hole light spotted

Wednesday, August 13, 2014 - 05:01 in Astronomy & Space

Scientists have captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days.

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