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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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See The Milky Way's Sagittarius A* Black Hole In An Amazing Polarized Event Horizon Telescope Image

Image of the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*). from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration "has uncovered strong and organised magnetic fields spiralling from its edge," according to ESO.

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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,

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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 ...

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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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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Milky Way's Monster Black Hole Data Collected By 'Legion' Of Telescopes

The image of supermassive black hole Sagittarius A * was created using data from the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration. At the same time several telescopes, including the Chandra X-ray Observatory ...

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Astronomers capture unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

Active galactic nuclei are supermassive black holes at the center of certain galaxies. As matter falls into these black holes ...

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U of A researchers capture sharpest images yet of a supermassive black hole

A team that included University of Arizona astronomers captured the infrared image of the supermassive black hole using a Large Binocular Telescope Interferometer.

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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Feeding supermassive black holes may have ended the cosmic 'dark ages' billions of years ago

NASA's Chandra and NuSTAR telescopes have teamed up to study a supermassive black hole-powered quasar that could have played ...

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Strange Flashes Could Be Signs of Closest Object Seen Near a Black Hole

Black holes themselves emit no light, but the supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies are often surrounded by ...

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