What The Dick? For The First Time Ever, NASA Spots Something Exiting A Black Hole

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One of the most basic axioms of the universe is that the gravitational forces of black holes are so strong nothing can escape. Not even light.

Of course, all these rules were established using only the most primitive tools to view space. As our abilities to observe the universe grow, even long held scientific principles have the tendency to be disproven.

Like this week, when NASA spotted, for the first time ever, x-rays being expelled from a black hole.

The black hole, Markarian 335, was being watched by NASA’s NuSTAR telescope, which spotted what’s known as a coronal shift. The corona is the light that surrounds a black hole, and NASA watched this black hole somehow send it outward.

Scientists aren’t really sure why this happened, even though they know it’s a major event to observe.

“This is the first time we have been able to link the launching of the corona to a flare,” said Dan Wilkins of Saint Mary’s University in Halifax, Canada,. “This will help us understand how supermassive black holes power some of the brightest objects in the universe.”

That above illustration is of Markarian 335 sending an x-ray projectile out into space.

OR IT’S A DEATH STAR SHOOTING A LASER.

Somebody go check on Alderaan.

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