F. Podobnik

For two years, the LST-1 prototype tracked the flickering of distant space beacons — blazars. At their centers, supermassive black holes act like giant spotlights, shooting out narrow beams of gamma rays. The telescope didn't catch the rays themselves, but their atmospheric footprints — faint blue f

Astronomers observed a gamma-ray flare from a quasar — the ultra-bright core of a galaxy with a black hole inside. The light traveled for 7 billion years. Unexpectedly, it turned out to have originated not from the hole itself, but from the dust ring surrounding it. This helps us understand how blac