Black holes can shoot out jets of energy and they may have detected a record breaking amount:

On June 14, record-breaking high energy light was detected by sensors on NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. This event was caused by a disturbance, 5 billion years ago, near 3C 279’s supermassive black hole and it’s just reaching us only recently. The flare was so powerful that it was four times brighter than the brightest constant source under gamma-ray observation, the Vela pulsar, a very magnetic neutron star, left from a massive supernova, that beams gamma rays. To further contextualize the flare’s tremendous energy, the Vela pulsar is about 1,000 light years away and 3C 279 is millions of times further from us than that and produced greater brightness.

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