The Black Hole Has Awakened! 100 Million Years of Silence! | Part 1
760 million light-years away, a supermassive black hole has awakened after a hundred million years of complete silence. Two jets of plasma, each nearly a million light-years long, erupted from the center of the galaxy J1007+3540. For comparison, the entire Milky Way is only a hundred thousand light-years in diameter. ───────────────────────────────────────────
This issue of Late Science tells the full story of this awakening: how it was discovered, what it means for the galaxy, and why it directly concerns us.
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You will learn:
— What are supermassive black holes and why are they at the center of every large galaxy?
— How the VLA radio telescope allowed us to observe three epochs of activity in one object at once?
— Why a black hole's silence is more dangerous than its activity?
— How black holes "kill" their galaxies—and what quenching is?
— What is happening to Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the center of our Milky Way?
— Why the Fermi Bubbles? This is a trace of the final awakening of our own black hole.
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The study was published in April 2026 by Shobha Kumari's team (India) in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
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▶ Part 2 - Our Galaxy's Black Hole Has Awakened! What Does This Mean for Earth?
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