Accidental Discovery Yields Black Hole ‘Light Echo’ 1.5 Times Wide as Milky Way
A high-school junior has made a groundbreaking discovery in astronomy, stumbling upon a “light echo” – a cosmic phenomenon that can still be seen long after a black hole in the center of a galaxy has sputtered out. Julian Shapiro, 17, was scanning images from the DECaPS2 survey when he found an object with a … Read more