An X-ray outburst caught by NASA's Swift on Sept. 16, 2012, resultedfrom a flood of gas plunging toward a previously unknown black hole. Gasflowing from a sun-like star collects into a disk around the blackhole. Normally, this gas would steadily spiral inward. But in thissystem, named Swift J1745-26, the gas collects for decades beforesuddenly surging inward.