Astronomers Were Watching a Black Hole When It Suddenly Exploded With Gamma Rays

Woah.Blast RadiusIn 2018, astronomers took the first-ever picture of a black hole, a fascinating and unprecedented glimpse of an event horizon.And as it turns out, the black hole — dubbed M87* and located some 55 million light-years away — also let out a massive belch of gamma rays while scientists from the Event Horizon Telescope team, an international collaboration combining data from sensors around the globe, were getting a closer look.The campaign gathered data from 25 terrestrial and orbital telescopes in April 2018, and scientists are still poring over the results.”We were…

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