{"id":205815,"date":"2025-02-07T08:06:16","date_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:06:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/supermassive-black-hole-displays-unprecedented-x-ray-outbursts"},"modified":"2025-02-07T08:06:16","modified_gmt":"2025-02-07T14:06:16","slug":"supermassive-black-hole-displays-unprecedented-x-ray-outbursts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/02\/supermassive-black-hole-displays-unprecedented-x-ray-outbursts","title":{"rendered":"Supermassive black hole displays \u2018unprecedented\u2019 X-ray outbursts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/supermassive-black-hole-displays-unprecedented-x-ray-outbursts.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An international team of researchers has detected a series of significant X-ray oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole \u2013 an unprecedented discovery that could indicate the presence of a nearby stellar-mass orbiter such as a white dwarf.<\/p>\n<p><b><strong>Optical outburst<\/strong><\/b><\/p>\n<p>The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led team began studying the extreme supermassive black hole 1ES 1927+654 \u2013 located around 270 million light years away and about a million times more massive than the Sun \u2013 in 2018, when it brightened by a factor of around 100 at optical wavelengths. Shortly after this optical outburst, X-ray monitoring revealed a period of dramatic variability as X-rays dropped rapidly \u2013 at first becoming undetectable for about a month, before returning with a vengeance and transforming into the brightest supermassive black hole in the X-ray sky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An international team of researchers has detected a series of significant X-ray oscillations near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole \u2013 an unprecedented discovery that could indicate the presence of a nearby stellar-mass orbiter such as a white dwarf. Optical outburst The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)-led team began studying the extreme supermassive [\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-205815","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205815","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=205815"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205815\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205815"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205815"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205815"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}