Milky Way Super Black Hole

Milky Way, supermassive black hole

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.

IFLScience on MSN · 2d

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 see flares coming from the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole

There’s plenty of action at the center of the galaxy, where a supermassive black hole (SMBH) known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) literally holds the galaxy together. Part of that action is the creation of gigantic flares from Sgr A*,

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

In any globular cluster, all its stars formed at the same time, from the same cloud of gas. The Milky Way has more than 150 known globular clusters; these objects are excellent tools for studying, for ...

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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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There might be far more supermassive black holes hiding around us than we thought, scientists warn

The universe could be home to far more supermassive black holes than we realised, according to new research. Many of them are ...

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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Unprecedented view of supermassive black hole in action

The interferometer team, led by Steve Ertel, associate astronomer of Steward Observatory, observed several phenomena ...

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