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Kornmesser Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive ... a constant stream of flares erupting from the gas swirling ...

Metzger and Patel’s team estimate that these flares could be responsible for up to 10 percent of the heavy elements in our galaxy. Combined with neutron star mergers, that could account for ...

The swirling disk of gas and dust (or accretion disk) orbiting the central supermassive black hole, called Sagittarius A*, is emitting a constant stream of flares with no periods of rest ...

The astronomers calculated that such flares could be responsible for forging up to 10% of our galaxy's gold, platinum and other heavy elements. The discovery also resolves a decades-long mystery ...

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

An artist’s illustration depicts the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, known as Sagittarius A*. It’s surrounded by a swirling accretion disk of hot gas and dust.