Scientists Turned the James Webb to Examine Black Hole at Center of Our Galaxy and Saw Something Wild

The James Webb Space Telescope has peered 13 billion years in the past and tens of billions of light-years away from our planet. And in a recent experiment, scientists decided to look deep into a black hole that's way closer to home — where they were met with an explosive light show. As CNN reports, scientists at Northwestern University turned the groundbreaking space telescope onto Sagittarius A*, the central black hole at the heart of our Milky Way Galaxy that's about 26,000 light-years away from Earth, to see what its sensitive instruments would pick up. In the most detailed look at that black hole ever undertaken, the astrophysicists observed incredible flares of light spewing out of Sagittarius A* that CNN described as resembling pyrotechnics. As the researchers explained in a new paper published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, these types of flares usually burst out of accretion disks, or swirling disks of hot gas and dust. Though they're not completely sure of its orig ... Read full article.