Astrophysicists have published a paper describing how, by sheer chance, they spotted and watched a never-before-seen event -- a massive black hole swallowing a low-mass object, after laying dormant for decades.
"The observation was completely unexpected, from a galaxy that has been quiet for at least 20 to 30 years," said Marek Nikolajuk of Poland's University of Bialystok, who made the discovery along with Roland Walter of the University of Geneva. The two were studying another galaxy using ESA's Integral space observatory -- a gamma-ray observatory used to observe energetic radiation events -- when they spotted a high-energy X-ray flare burst at the centre of the NGC 4845 galaxy, located 47 million light years from Earth.
By: Liat Clark, Edited by: Ian Steadman
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