About 3.5 million years ago, the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy unleashed an enormous burst of energy. Our primitive ancestors, already afoot on the African plains, would have witnessed this flare as a ghostly glow that persisted for a million years. (Credit: NASA/ESA, G. Cecil)

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