Astronomers see possible awakening of supermassive black hole

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Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory and the Millennium Institute of Astrophysics in Chile have announced a groundbreaking discovery: humanity may have observed, for the first time, the awakening process of a supermassive black hole at the heart of a galaxy. Texture, pattern, apocalypse, and space stars by BoliviaInteligente. (Photo: Unsplash) Located at the center of an elliptical galaxy in the constellation Virgo, approximately 300 million light-years from Earth, this supermassive black hole boasts a mass equivalent to one million suns. For decades, it remained in a quiescent slumber, undetected by astronomers' vigilant eyes. However, since December 2019, the black hole has unexpectedly sprung to life, a phenomenon documented in the scientific journal "Astronomy & Astrophysics" under the title "Astronomers see a massive black hole awaken in real time." The unusual brightness first caught astronomers' attention in December 2019, emanating from the central region of the ………………………………