Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is putting on a relentless display of flickers and flares, according to new observations from ...

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NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...

Sagittarius A*, our galaxy's supermassive black hole, is constantly producing strange eruptions. Astronomers are using the ...

NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...

The supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center is providing a round the clock "fireworks" display on an unprecedented ...

Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...

Using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope, Northwestern astrophysicists gained the longest, most detailed glimpse yet of the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.

The Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is an unstoppable cosmic firework show, flaring with wild bursts of energy that seem to have no pattern. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...

S agittarius A*, the supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of our galaxy, is not as placid as previously thought, new observations with the JWST reveal. Instead, the surrounding accretion disk ...