MIT, Harvard students spot a new flaring black hole
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University students have discovered a newly flaring black hole 30,000 light-years away from Earth. While watching an asteroid through NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft, they saw a glowing object in the constellation Columba. The instrument, developed by MIT and Harvard students is designed to measure X-rays emitted from asteroids and it accidentally spotted a flare of X-rays from a black hole, now named MAXI J0637-430.
