Animation describing the scientific result published here: Wevers, Coughlin, Pasham et al. (2022), https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/202... A mysterious flash of electromagnetic radiation from the center of a galaxy some 800 million light years away was first detected in 2018. The flare lasted for about 2 years and then it disappeared. This behavior is consistent with the supermassive black hole a...