June 19, 2024

Artist's illustration of two phases of the formation of a disk of gas and dust around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy SDSS1335+0728

An article accepted for publication in the journal “Astronomy & Astrophysics” reports the results of the observation of a new activity of the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy cataloged as SDSS J133519.91+072807.4 and called “simply” SDSS1335+0728. A team of researchers used observations conducted with various instruments to observe an increase in this galaxy’s brightness. This already led to its inclusion among those with an active galactic nucleus at the end of 2019.