NASA observes mysterious gigantic flare blasting out of black hole

NASA's two space telescopes Swift and Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) were spectators to a gigantic black hole emitting a bright flare, which used to be a mysterious event.

This black hole, which is known as Markarian 335 is situated right at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy and far off from Earth, about 324 million light years.

Supermassive black holes pull swirling gas into it due to its massive gravitational pull, heating this material and causing it to shine with different types of light as they don't have any light of their own.

Astronomers caught the supermassive black hole in the midst of a giant eruption of X-ray light called a flare. How black holes flare used to be a mystery but researchers are now able to dig deeper saying that these X-ray beams are a result of 'coronas' escaping from the black hole travelling at 20 percent the speed of light. 

Coronas consist of highly energetic particles that produce X-ray light, but their appearance and formation is still speculative. The astronomers found that it is the corona that causes the flares.

By analysing the X-ray light from Mrk 335 from by both Swift and NuSTAR, the researchers could tell that the corona X-ray light had brightened and that this brightening was due to the corona in motion.

The results suggest that supermassive black holes send out colossal beams of X-rays when their nearby coronas.

In simple words, the bright X-ray flare from the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way was caused by the ejected corona.