Black hole wakes up

[DJofSD]

http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Sp...after_26_years

On 15 June 2015, a long-time acquaintance of X-ray and gamma ray astronomers made its comeback to the cosmic stage: V404 Cygni, a system comprising a black hole and a star orbiting one another. It is located in our Milky Way galaxy, almost 8000 light-years away in the constellation Cygnus, the Swan.

Maybe Mick can revisit "2,000 Light Years from Home."

[Marshall Bennett]

Glad it's 8000 and not 800 light years away.