{"id":3927749,"date":"2026-09-01T08:02:07","date_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-in-x-rays-and-its-radio-jets-followed-300-days-later\/"},"modified":"2026-09-01T08:02:07","modified_gmt":"2026-09-01T13:02:07","slug":"a-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-in-x-rays-and-its-radio-jets-followed-300-days-later","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/a-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-in-x-rays-and-its-radio-jets-followed-300-days-later\/","title":{"rendered":"A supermassive black hole erupted in X-rays, and its radio jets followed 300 days later"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA&#8217;s Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-rays, and about 300 days later, its powerful radio emission flared too. Their paper describing the connection between this black hole&#8217;s accretion disk and the jets it launches was submitted to the arXiv preprint server on Aug. 13  and accepted for publication in the Astrophysical Journal Letters.<\/div>\n<p><a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2026-08-supermassive-black-hole-erupted-rays.html\" target=\"_blank\">Go to Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By combining roughly two decades of observations from NASA&#8217;s Swift X-ray Telescope with radio monitoring, astronomers have caught a supermassive black hole at the heart of the Perseus Cluster suddenly flaring in X-rays, and about 300 days later, its powerful radio emission flared too. Their paper describing the connection between this black hole&#8217;s accretion disk [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3927749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-astronomy","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3927749"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3927749\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3927749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3927749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mikedyess.info\/para\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3927749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}