Astronomers detect light behind black hole for first time

Telescope picks up unexpected ‘luminous echoes’ – smaller, later and of different colour to bright flares

Astronomers have detected light behind a black hole deep in space for the first time.

Bright flares of X-rays were spotted bursting from a supermassive black hole at the centre of a galaxy 800m light years away, which is relatively normal.

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