For the first time, astronomers have seen light from deep within space.Bright flares of Xrays were seen bursting from a supermassive dark hole located at the center of a galaxy 800m away. This is quite normal.While researchers were studying the corona, telescopes picked up unexpected luminous echos. These flashes were shorter, later and had different colours to the bright flares.Albert Einstein's theory of general relativity was confirmed by this discovery. Scientists now have a glimpse at the future because of the gravitational pull of black holes.Roger Blandford, co-author of the Nature research, stated: 50 years ago, astrophysicists began to speculate about how the magnetic field might behave near a black hole. They didn't know that we would one day have the tools to observe this directly, and Einstein's general theory in action.Dan Wilkins, an Astrophysicist at Stanford University, stated: Any light that enters that black hole doesn't come out. Therefore, we shouldn't be able see anything behind that black hole.We can see this because the black hole is warping space, twisting magnetic fields and bending light around itself.
