Gamma-ray heartbeat at the heart of distance gas cloud powered by black hole is ‘baffling’

A gas cloud 15,000 light years from Earth has a ‘gamma-ray’ heartbeat powered by a nearby black hole – but astronomers don’t know how the heartbeat gets its energy.  Scientists detected the heartbeat in the centre of a cloud in the constellation Aquila and it beats to the rhythm of a ‘microquasar’ system with a … Read more