What Happens When a Black Hole Wakes Up After 100 Million Years?
Mahtab A Quddusi (noreply@blogger.com)
A supermassive black hole that "wakes up" after 100 million years of silence, such as the one observed in galaxy J1007+3540, acts like a "cosmic volcano" erupting again. Scientists observed massive jets colliding with dense cluster gas, creating distorted structures nearly a million light-years wide. This rare episodic activity reveals how black holes switch between active and quiet phases and shape galaxy evolution over time. What happens when a dormant black hole wakes up after 100 million yea