NASA's NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light

NASA's NuSTAR Sees Rare Blurring of Black Hole Light
Washington DC (SPX) Aug 13, 2014 - NASA's Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) has captured an extreme and rare event in the regions immediately surrounding a supermassive black hole. A compact source of X-rays that sits near the black hole, called the corona, has moved closer to the black hole over a period of just days. "The corona recently collapsed in toward the black hole, with the result that the black hole' ... more

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