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Supermassive black hole’s mysterious ‘hiccups’ likely caused by violent neighbor

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Supermassive black hole’s mysterious ‘hiccups’ likely caused by violent neighbor

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A hiccuping supermassive black hole has alerted astronomers to a whole new type of black hole behavior. 

In 2020, a previously quiet black hole at the heart of a galaxy about 800 million light-years from Earth, and with a mass equivalent to 50 million suns, suddenly erupted, brightening the material around it by a factor of 1,000.

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