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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole

The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

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First-ever detection of a mid-infrared flare in Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's supermassive massive black hole

Using the MIRI instrument onboard the James Webb Space Telescope, an international team of scientists made the first-ever detection of a mid-IR flare from Sagittarius A*, the supermassive massive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way.

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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

Sagittarius A* is the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. As supermassive black holes go, it is fairly quiet. It’s not creating any galaxy-wide tantrums that should worry us. It does flare up though,

Milky Way’s Black Hole Just Lit Up in a Way We’ve Never Seen Before

Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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Supermassive Black Hole Caught Doing Something Never Seen Before

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we have access to. It's also on the quiescent end of the activity scale, which ...

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Astronomers find hundreds of 'hidden' black holes — and there may be billions or even trillions more

Black holes that have been obscured by clouds of dust still emit infrared light, enabling astronomers to spot them for the ...

NASA Astronomers Zero In on the Number of Hidden Supermassive Black Holes

Researchers found far more hidden black holes than previously known, indicating plenty of behemoths lurking in thick clouds ...

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'Troublesome' radio galaxy 32 times the size of Milky Way spotted

Astronomers have discovered an extraordinary new giant radio galaxy with plasma jets 32 times the size of our Milky Way.

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Gaia Detected an Entire Swarm of Black Holes Moving Through The Milky Way

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass ...

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Cosmic Megastructure 32 Times Bigger Than The Milky Way Discovered

A radio telescope in South Africa has unearthed a giant galaxy—dubbed a "cosmic megastructure"—with plasma jets that measure ...

Intrepid white dwarf has a close encounter with a massive black hole

Scientists have detected emanating from the nucleus of a galaxy relatively close to our Milky Way flashes of X-rays gradually ...

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