In 2018, a distant black hole threw a fit. The 1.4-million-solar-mass black hole at the center of the galaxy 1ES 1927+654 some 270 million light-years away suddenly began spewing radiation, flaring in optical, ultraviolet, and X-ray light. Then, astronomers watched as the so-called X-ray corona of high-energy particles close in to the black hole vanishedContinue reading "Supermassive black hole births jets, hosts orbiting white dwarf, all while astronomers watch"
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