When you think about black holes, you probably don’t tend to wonder if they’re hungry.
The idea of a hungrily feeding black hole is quite intimidating, I bet.
Rest easy, however, because a black hole’s eating pattern may help us better understand them.
When dormant, supermassive black holes are typically quite dull and don’t emit much light.
The researchers describe the flickering as the black hole equivalent of a burp.
When we’re infants, we typically burp a lot more.
