PARABNORMAL NEWS — Nobody is entirely sure why the brightness of black holes fluctuates.
To find out, researchers Ji-Jia Tang, Christian Wolf and John Tonry studied patterns from more than 5,000 black holes over five years using data from NASA’s ATLAS telescope in Hawaii, which scans the entire sky nightly.
The mass of black holes is so great that it bends space around them so tightly that not even light can escape. But sometimes they shine more brightly than entire galaxies due to a galactic vacuum effect.
A new paper in Nature Astronomy makes the case that turbulence driven by friction and intense gravitational and magnetic fields could be the cause of the flickering.
Source: Universality in the random walk structure function of luminous quasi-stellar objects
The picture above is the second-ever photo taken of a black hole.
