IIT Guwahati, ISRO Scientists Decode Flickering X-Ray Signals From Distant Black Hole

Researchers at the Indian Institute of Technology (IIT), Guwahati, in collaboration with UR Rao Satellite Centre, ISRO and Haifa University, Israel, have uncovered a mysterious X-ray signal pattern emitted from a blackhole, located nearly 28,000 light-years from the Earth, according to officials.

- Press Trust Of India

Using the data from India's space observatory AstroSat, the researchers observed the X-ray brightness from the black hole alternated between bright and dim phases, each lasting several hundred seconds, they said.

The findings of this research have been published in the prestigious journal, Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.