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New Delhi: NASA's Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope on Tuesday spotted a record flare from black hole in distant galaxy.


The gamma rays were captured coming from a galaxy known as PKS 1441+25, a type of active galaxy called a blazar. The galaxy is black-hole-powered and more than halfway across the universe.


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PKS 1441+25 is a famous blazar, a galaxy whose high-energy activity is powered by a central supermassive black hole weighing up to 70 million times the Sun's mass. What makes a blazar so bright is that one of these particle jets happens to be aimed almost straight at us.


Further explaining about the process, NASA tweeted on its official Twitter handle: