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Astronomers Discover Shifting Brightness of Supermassive Black Holes

1/28/2025

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Astronomers are unraveling the mysteries of supermassive black holes, revealing a turbulent accretion disk around M87* that shifted brightness by 30 degrees between 2017 and 2018. Meanwhile, the black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 has been spotted launching plasma jets at one-third the speed of light, deepening our understanding of these cosmic giants.

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Astronomers are unraveling the mysteries of supermassive black holes, revealing a turbulent accretion disk around M87* that shifted brightness by 30 degrees between 2017 and 2018. Meanwhile, the black hole in galaxy 1ES 1927+654 has been spotted launching plasma jets at one-third the speed of light, deepening our understanding of these cosmic giants.