A close-up view of a rare, flickering black hole jet has scientist rethinking how these enormous eruptions form. Two years ago, the MAGIC telescope, located in the Canary Islands, happened to catch a black hole jet doing something very rare: It was flickering. Radiating from a black hole in a galaxy called IC 310, the jet was emitting bright flashes of gamma rays — the highest-energy light in the universe. The best explanation scientists have given for how such flares might occur is called shock acceleration.
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