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Astronomers Discover a Black Hole 'Waking Up'

Above: In this handout from NASA/ESA, an artist's concept illustrates a quasar, or feeding black hole. Image copyright: Pool/Pool/Getty Images News via Getty Images

The Facts

  • Astronomers at the European Southern Observatory (ESO) say they've observed the gradual illumination of a black hole 1M times larger than the sun located 300M lightyears away.

  • The black hole was first discovered by the an observatory in California, called the Zwicky Transient Facility, in 2019. It's located within the Virgo constellation of a distant galaxy, which was previously ignored for decades.

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