Nicholl and his colleagues trained several telescopes on the center of a galaxy about 214 million light years away, where something around the supermassive black hole was erupting in bright bursts of x-rays every 48 hours.
We think what happens is that the [orbiting star] punches out a cloud of gas from the disk, which is heated to something like a million degrees as it falls toward the black hole.
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