In the Media

Astronomers from MIT and other institutions have discovered a “supermassive black hole that appears to be ‘waking up’ after being inactive for decades,” reports Soo Kim for Newsweek. “The black hole at the heart of SDSS1335+0728—a distant galaxy 300 million light-years away—was found to have produced flashes of light known as quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs),” Kim explains, adding that the “the bursts of X-rays from Ansky were found to be 10 times longer and 10 times more luminous than what we see from a typical QPE.”