X-rays have been detected from behind a black hole for the first time ever - Interesting Engineering

First-ever recordings of X-ray emissions from a black hole's far side finally confirm Einstein's general relativity theory.

Such a phenomenon has been theorized to exist before and is explained by the fact that as gas descends into a supermassive black hole, brilliant flares of X-ray emissions are produced -- exactly as s… [+1980 chars]

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