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A ring of high-energy particles surrounding a black hole suddenly disappeared – techtoday19
In March 2018 astronomers watched a massive black hole surge in brightness. Then over the following year, its ring of light dimmed to near-invisibility before regaining its former strength. The potential culprit? The black hole swallowing an entire star. The …
In March 2018 astronomers watched a massive black hole surge in brightness. Then over the following year, its ring of light dimmed to near-invisibility before regaining its former strength. The potential culprit? The black hole swallowing an entire star.
The neighborhood of a black hole is, to put it mildly, a nasty place. And its especially bad near the biggest black holes in the universe, known as supermassive black holes. As gas and dust falls towards the event horizon, it crowds together in…
