The James Webb Space Telescope has shown that the Milky Way’s black hole is constantly blazing with light, releasing long ...

Astronomers have spotted displays of flashing lights and “fireworks” near a supermassive black hole at the center of the ...

"Have you ever flipped through old photo albums and suddenly found something fascinating hidden in the background of a ...

Unpredictable bursts of light are pulsing from the debris surrounding Sagittarius A*, offering new insights into the ...

Observations revealed ongoing fireworks featuring short bursts and longer flares. Imagine solar flares, but magnified to an ...

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 ...

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the ...

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

The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...