Nasa X-Ray Telescope Captures Rare Event of Blurring of Light Near Black Hole

Nasa's black-hole hunting telescope has caught images of a very hungry black hole at dinner, sucking in interstellar gas, and not even sparing the light it belches out in the process. NuSTAR, or the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array, has returned rare images of a supermassive black hole's gravity pulling at X-ray light from the corona, and causing the blurring of light. The black hole Markarian 335, or Mrk 335, is about 324 million light-years from Earth in the direction of the Pegasus constellation. It is one of the hungriest black holes whose mass and spin has been measured.

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