Supermassive Black hole Mysterious Hiccups

Supermassive Black hole Mysterious Hiccups

Astronomers have discovered a supermassive black hole, 800 million light-years away, behaving oddly, brightening a thousand-fold, suggesting it's "hiccuping" due to a smaller black hole's disruptions.

This behavior, observed in a galaxy's heart with a black hole massing 50 million suns, challenges previous notions about black hole accretion disks. The team posits that a secondary black hole collides with the gas and dust disk surrounding the primary, causing these hiccups.

This new finding suggests accretion disks might contain complex elements, like smaller black holes, altering our understanding of black hole dynamics. This discovery, leveraging data from telescopes and the NICER X-ray observatory, highlights the potential for numerous similar systems, urging further investigation to unravel the mysteries of black hole interactions and their effects on galaxy dynamics.

[jimmiejackson]

2 Black Holes that close together seems unlikely especially since they are that close you would think the larger one would not allow the smaller one to pull away.

[ruthyluigi]

stellar black holes golden eye to eyes reflection to each other vector of light

[MrHotlipsholohan]

We are told that nothing can leave a black hole once in, yet, it spews out matter periodically so which is it or do they not really have a clue as i suspect.

[simon_mrth]

LOCATED 800 MILLION WHAAAAT...??? 😳 😳 😳 🙆🏾‍♂️ 🙆🏾‍♂️

[LeeHoFooks]

You can go see a bunch of them on 21th street.

[shlaugen]

Space! The only thing they know is that they know nothing

[tylo]

What if we are in the first steps of being the aliens of the aliens we talk about, simulation theory

[anirudhdwivedi]

I think that can be possible, since the distances we are talking about are (multi-billion times) more than we assume even at that level.

[tbyzer]

They found a radiation source, not a black hole.

[cloudwalker]

another black hole inside an excretion disc?? That would be like having two powerful magnets just inches apart from one another…attraction on a massive scale would consume the other

[Elaphe]

Amazing all the idiotic comments; if you don't like astronomy, go watch football.