Fermi Detects Record Flare From Distant Black Hole
GREENBELT, Md., July 10 (UPI) — On June 14, a burst of energy registered on the instruments of NASA’s Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope.
The high-energy light had traveled some five billion light-years revealing an ancient disturbance originating from the a large black hole in the center of galaxy 3C 279.
“One day 3C 279 was just one of many active galaxies we see, and the next day it was the brightest thing in the gamma-ray sky,” Sara Cutini, a Fermi Large Area Telescope scientist, said in a press release.
Cutini works as a researcher at the Italian Space Agency’s Science Data Center in Rome.
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