The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.

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

This happens a few times a day,” Yusef-Zadeh tells NPR. Images of the faint flickers and big, bright flares around the black hole taken from nine hours of observation by the telescope can be ...

SpaceX lost the video feed from Starship as it spiraled out of control, but an amateur astronomer in Florida recorded its explosive fall from space.

Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares appear to be generated by separate processes. The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party -- and it is ...

The constant, rapid-fire display includes seconds-long short flashes and longer, blindingly bright flares of light on a daily basis. The Webb observations mark the longest, most detailed look ...

While some flares are faint flickers, lasting mere seconds, other flares are blindingly bright eruptions, which spew daily. There also are even fainter flickers that surge for months at a time.