A black hole's magnetic flip (VIDEO)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Caption

Explore the unusual eruption of 1ES 1927+654, a galaxy located 236 million light-years away in the constellation Draco. A sudden reversal of the magnetic field around its million-solar-mass black hole may have triggered the outburst.

Credit

NASA’s Goddard Space Flight Center

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