The supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our Milky Way galaxy is not as dormant as had been thought, a new study shows.
The slumbering giant woke up around 200 years ago to gobble up some nearby cosmic objects before going back to sleep, according to the study published in the journal Nature on Wednesday. The observations on which this illustration is based represent the first time that the jet and the black hole shadow have been imaged together, giving scientists new insights into how black holes can launch these powerful jets. S.
NASA's IXPE space observatory spotted an x-ray echo of this powerful resurgence of activity, the researchers said. Sgr A* has "always been seen as a dormant black hole," said Frederic Marin, a researcher at France's Strasbourg Astronomical Observatory and the study's first author. Its awakening was noticable because nearby galactic molecular clouds started giving off vastly more x-ray light.
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