Credit: University of Hawaii at Manoa The visible light in these flares was thought to come only from the lower layers of a star's atmosphere. Particles energized by magnetic reconnection ...

A supermassive black hole in the center of the Milky Way galaxy is creating a light show that's intriguing astronomers. Flares of light have been observed in a disk orbiting the black hole ...

"ASASSN-22ci is special because its light curve and spectra are the most 'normal' of the small group of TDEs to have shown ...

(CNN) — Astronomers using the James Webb Space Telescope have spied dynamic flares of light near the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy. The constant, rapid-fire ...

The explosion that erupted from behind the sun's eastern edge ... the sunspots release solar flares in the form of bright flashes of light and CMEs. Solar flares travel at the speed of light ...