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

Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the ...

Yusef-Zadeh likens the event to a solar flare. "It's similar to how the sun's magnetic field gathers together, compresses and then erupts a solar flare," he explained. "Of course, the processes ...

Previous flares observed from the distant galaxy consisted of a few gamma rays per minute hitting ... perhaps even smaller than our solar system. Another unusual feature of Markarian 421 is that it is ...

Solar flares are bursts of radiation from the sun’s surface, sometimes followed by a bubble of magnetized plasma particles called a coronal mass ejection (CME). If they happen to spray out in ...

A mysterious phenomenon at the center of our galaxy could be the result of a different type of dark matter. A mysterious phenomenon at the centre of our galaxy could be the result of a different ...

And a few months later, spectacular auroras, which could even be seen in southern Europe, were accompanied by similarly strong flares. Other space observatories, such as NASA's Solar Dynamics ...

"It is a great stroke of luck that Aditya-L1 was able to witness such a strong flare right at the beginning of its research career." India's first sun-studying spacecraft, Aditya-L1, has captured ...

India’s first dedicated space based solar mission, Aditya-L1, has made a ground-breaking observation as one of its scientific payloads has captured the first-ever image of a solar flare ...