Tuesday, November 11, 2014

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News

ScienceDaily: Black Holes News


Astronomers discover first 'lightning' from a black hole

Posted: 10 Nov 2014 06:07 AM PST

An international group of researchers has discovered the first 'lighting' from a black hole, with variations in brilliance more powerful than ever observed in an extragalactic object. The emission, the researchers suggest in their study, "is associated with pulsar-like particle acceleration by the electric field across a magnetospheric gap at the base of the radio jet."

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