Patrick F. -- Recent research led by astronomers at the University of Warwick has evidenced the source of one of the brightest beams of energy yet recorded in human history. This beam is concluded to have occurred 3.8 billion years ago following a massive black hole's consumption of a star. This implosion is theorized to have caused the high energy X-rays and gamma-rays observed from Earth recently, 3.8 billion years after the star was ripped apart.
Lead researcher Andrew Levan notes the pure chance which allowed such high energy rays to be observed from Earth: “We still only happen to see this event because our solar system happened to be looking right down the barrel of this jet of energy.” This event, now labeled Sw 1644+57, believed to have occurred in a far away galaxy existent in the constellation Draco. Levan's research indicates that only the consumption of a star in such a manner would be capable of replicating the size, intensity, time scale, and levels of fluctuation observed. This research was conducted using the Hubble Space Telescope, Swift satellite, and the Chandra X-Ray Observatory and provides valuable insights as well as observable evidence towards the nature and effects of black holes located within star systems.
Link: How a Distant Black Hole Devoured a Star
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