Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy

Dormant black hole revives in under three years, brightening 10-fold in nearby galaxy
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Astronomers monitoring a nearby active galaxy for six years have watched its supermassive black hole dramatically wake up, brightening by a factor of 10 across ultraviolet and X-ray wavelengths. The paper outlining the study was posted to the preprint server arXiv on May 18.
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