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# X-ray flashes from a supermassive black hole

!(70%)[Black hole](img/blackhole.jpg)

.abstract
    One supermassive black hole has kept astronomers glued to their scopes
    for the last several years.
    The black hole in question is `1ES 1927+654`, which is about as
    massive as a million suns and sits in a galaxy that is 270 million
    light-years away.
    In 2018, astronomers at MIT and elsewhere observed that the black
    hole’s corona — a cloud of whirling, white-hot plasma — suddenly
    **disappeared**, before reassembling months later.
    The brief though dramatic shut-off was a first in black hole astronomy.

> This would be the closest thing we know of around any black hole.
> - Megan Masterson, a graduate student in physics at MIT

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