Farhad Yusef-Zadeh/Northwestern University The supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is putting on a relentless display of flickers and flares, according to new observations from ...

NASA's flagship space telescope captured flares from the disk of superheated material around the black hole, revealing the dynamic—and explosive—physics at our galaxy's core.

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.

The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way appears to be having a party—and it is weird, wild and wonderful.

These observations derived from NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope capture the round the clock “fireworks” display, reflecting a constant stream of flares with no periods of rest. Buzz60’s Chloe Hurst ...