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It astonished the scientific world: The mysterious black hole is moving!

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January 15, 2025

Scientists say a mysterious black hole has started to behave even more strangely. MIT researchers announced that the frequency of X-ray flashes coming from the supermassive black hole called 1ES 1927+654 has increased sharply in the last two years. Research on this discovery, which astonished the scientific world, continues.

Supermassive black holes are known as one of the most mysterious and powerful objects in the universe. However, the black hole named 1ES 1927+654 has recently exhibited unusual behavior and astonished the scientific world.
Erin Kara, an associate professor of physics at MIT, emphasized the strangeness in the behavior of the black hole in her research. Kara said that they had previously watched this black hole because it was very beautiful, but then they noticed something much more strange.
It was recorded that the frequency of the black hole’s X-ray flashes had increased in the last two years. These flashes, which previously occurred every 18 minutes, now occur every 7 minutes.

This situation was recorded as an event that astronomers had never observed before. “Such a large change in the blinking rate is definitely not similar to a normal black hole,” said Megan Masterson, a graduate student in MIT’s physics department.

The researchers point to a white dwarf orbiting the black hole as the cause of this unusual increase. The white dwarf may be moving towards the edge of the black hole, and this could be a major factor affecting the events around the black hole.
Masterson said, “It is possible for objects like white dwarfs to live this close to the black hole, to remain close to an event horizon for a very long time,” adding that they can test the accuracy of this theory with future observations.
The discovery provides new information about the behavior of black holes and physical processes in the universe. The findings appear in the paper “Milli-Hertz Oscillations Near the Nearest Orbit of an Ultrasupermassive Black Hole” published in the journal Nature.
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