{
  "id": 684344,
  "title": "Famous oddball quasar isn't X-ray weak after all, astronomers say",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/08/12/famous-oddball-quasar-isnt-x-ray-weak-after-all-astronomers-say",
  "topic": "science",
  "section": "Science",
  "published": "2026-08-12T16:40:01.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Phys.org",
    "slug": "phys-org",
    "url": "https://phys.org/news/2026-08-famous-oddball-quasar-isnt-ray.html"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "For more than two decades, the quasar PHL 1811 has been considered the prototype of a rare class of \"intrinsically X-ray weak\" quasars, thought to produce unusually little X-ray radiation. But in 2024, the Einstein Probe spacecraft caught the object in a bright X-ray flare. In a new study, astronomers combined that observation with more than 20 years of archival data to revisit the mystery. The…",
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}