Posting the image to X, NASA wrote, "A black hole revealed itself from 600 million light-years away when it ripped apart and swallowed a star. The resulting burst of radiation is the bright dot ...

They found the black hole’s accretion disk emits a constant stream of flares with no periods of rest. This video shows the 2.1 micron data taken on April 7, 2024.

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