Two leading X-ray telescopes have captured a black hole doing something unprecedented
Sandeep K S
Dec 31, 2025
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A supermassive black hole, thirty million times the mass of the sun, unleashes a record-breaking cosmic storm, forming ultra-fast winds at 60,000 km/s in just one day. This phenomenon, resembling a colossal solar coronal mass ejection, is driven by a dramatic "untwisting" of the black hole's magnetic field.
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