Visible Blackhole light??

[Dragan]

What do you make of this interesting article?

http://www.sciencealert.com/visible-light-emitted-from-a-black-hole-has-been-detected-for-the-first-time

[Howard B]

Now that's super cool! The AAVSO give these coordinates for V404 CYG: 20 24 03.83 +33 52 02.2 (J2000.0)

[Steve Gottlieb]

Here's the ESA press release (http://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Space_Science/Integral/Monster_black_hole_wakes_up_after_26_years) when the outburst occurred last June and the chatter on AAVSO (https://www.aavso.org/v404-cyg-going-outburst) at the time.

It looks like it had another huge outburst again a few days ago, according to recent observations (https://www.aavso.org/apps/webobs/results/?star=V404+CYG&num_results=200) on AAVSO

[Howard B]

Thanks for the AAVSO chatter link Steve - the second to last post, made today, includes a link showing a video of the huge brightness changes over only 5 hours: http://spiff.rit.edu/richmond/ritobs/jun23_2015/v404cyg_anim.gif