{"id":191663,"date":"2024-06-23T12:23:27","date_gmt":"2024-06-23T17:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/awakening-of-a-black-hole-witnessed-for-the-first-time"},"modified":"2024-06-23T12:23:27","modified_gmt":"2024-06-23T17:23:27","slug":"awakening-of-a-black-hole-witnessed-for-the-first-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/06\/awakening-of-a-black-hole-witnessed-for-the-first-time","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Awakening\u2019 of a black hole witnessed for the first time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/awakening-of-a-black-hole-witnessed-for-the-first-time2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 unexpectedly brightened, prompting astronomers to investigate the cause using data from various observatories, including the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT).<\/p>\n<p>The study, recently published in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2409\/eso2409a.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em><\/a>, suggests an unprecedented event: the sudden awakening of the massive <a href=\"https:\/\/www.earth.com\/news\/supermassive-black-holes-are-very-messy-eaters\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">black hole<\/a> at the galaxy\u2019s core.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cImagine you\u2019ve been observing a distant galaxy for years, and it always seemed calm and inactive,\u201d said Paula S\u00e1nchez S\u00e1ez, an astronomer at ESO.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In late 2019, the previously unremarkable galaxy SDSS1335+0728 unexpectedly brightened, prompting astronomers to investigate the cause using data from various observatories, including the European Southern Observatory\u2019s Very Large Telescope (ESO\u2019s VLT). The study, recently published in the journal Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics, suggests an unprecedented event: the sudden awakening of the massive black hole at the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-191663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191663","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=191663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/191663\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=191663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=191663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=191663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}