Black holes can produce oscillating outbursts of radiation that were thought to be associated with high rates of infalling matter. The observation of pulses of visible light from a black hole complicates this picture. See Letter p.54
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Gandhi, P. Why black holes pulse brightly. Nature 529, 28–29 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1038/529028a
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