Spontaneous Magnetic Reversal of Monster Black Hole Sparks Enigmatic Outburst - SciTechDaily

NASA’s Swift Observatory Tracks Potential Magnetic Flip of Monster Black Hole A rare and enigmatic outburst from an active galaxy 236 million light-years away may have been sparked by a magnetic reversal, a spontaneous flip of the magnetic field surrounding i…

ByFrancis Reddy, NASAs Goddard Space Flight CenterMay 6, 2022 This illustration shows the accretion disk, corona (pale, conical swirls above the disk), and supermassive black hole of active galaxy 1… [+8954 chars]

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