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.

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Using NIRCam, the US and Australian team observed the Sagittarius A* for several 8-to-10-hour periods across a year. Each observation gave them a different picture, suggesting the black hole ...

Scientists observed constant flares from the Milky Way's black hole, revealing unpredictable and intense activity.

Sagittarius A*—pronounced “Sagittarius A star” and ... which could help reduce noise in the data and provide an even clearer picture of the structure. Mark Wardle, an astrophysicist at ...

Sagittarius A* is also unique because it is 26,000 light years away from ... This happens a few times a day," Yusef-Zadeh tells NPR. Images of the faint flickers and big, bright flares around the ...

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A new James Webb Space Telescope study finds that Sagittarius A*, the Milky Way's central black ... they're getting their pictures taken by a collection of enormous, synced-up radio dishes on ...

One way to do this is with the JWST's Near Infrared Camera (NIRCam), which can capture images of the black hole with more sensitivity, and over longer periods, than other instruments. Using NIRCam, ...

Yusef-Zadeh and his colleagues observed Sagittarius A*, also called Sgr A* ... would be to try to connect these different data sources together to form a fuller picture of the physics of the ...

From flaring black holes to strange early galaxies, the Webb telescope is showing us the wonders of the universe like never before.