Nasa Satellite Captures Explosion of Light Escaping From A Black Hole

Black Holes suck in anything near it and its gravitational forces prevents all matter, including light, to escape.

So how is it that Nasa’s NuStar satellite has caught x-ray light seemingly erupting from a supermassive black hole (pictured above) - the largest type of black hole.

Now physicists, unlike us laymen, have known that black holes are capable of creating massive pulses of energy, but have never been able to understand why.

However, using these latest observations from the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuStar - scientists were able to see that swirling disks of hot glowing material surrounding the black hole, known as coronas, created the flare of light.

Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array or NuStar Satellite(Picture: Rex)

Dan Wilkins from Saint Mary’s University in Halifax who was lead author of a paper on these results, said : ‘This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare

‘This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.’

So, astrophysics is pretty cool, who would have thought that…