NASA spacecraft spots monster black hole bursting with X-rays 'releasing a hundred times more energy than we have seen elsewhere'

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April 11, 2025, 9:00 AM

• •A supermassive black hole at the heart of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728 has been seen erupting with the longest and most powerful X-ray blasts ever seen from such a cosmic titan.
• •The black hole, which has remained quiet for decades, is responsible for a region at the heart of its galaxy called an "active galactic nucleus
• • or "AGN." The team has dubbed this AGN "Ansky.
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• •The team's QPE observations were made possible with assistance from the European Space Agency (ESA) space mission XMM-Newton, NASA's NICE and Chandra missions, and archival data from eROSITA.

Astronomers have discovered a monster black hole that is having a very bad day. The black hole, which is located about 300 million light-years away from Earth, has been erupting with the longest and most powerful X-ray blasts ever seen from such a cosmic titan.

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