Astronomers discover why a binary black hole system has the hiccups [TechSpot]

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In a galaxy 800 million light-years away from Earth, there’s a supermassive black hole that had remained relatively quiet until December 2020. Back then, astronomers detected a faint burst of “light” in the X-ray portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. The burst occurred at an unusually regular interval, every 8.5 days.

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