High Energy2026-04-131 minarXiv:2604.11710expressBlack Hole Flashes Through the CurtainThe black hole GRS 1915+105 usually hides behind a dense gas curtain: its X-ray emission is heavily absorbed on its way to us. But in April 2023, it suddenly flared: the X-ray flux jumped nearly tenfold.Shuaitongze Zhao·Honghui Liu·Menglei Zhou·Swarnim Shashank·Cosimo Bambi·Andrea SantangeloFritz ZwickyJocelyn Bell BurnellSubrahmanyan Chandrasekhargamma-ray burstblack hole👍👎☆SimplePopularAdvanced