Two Micron All-Sky Survey (2MASS) imagery was used to create a animation of the warp of the Milky Way galaxy. Credit: 2MASS, ...
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope has recorded another amazing achievement. Scientists announced Tuesday that the telescope ...
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.
Astrophysicists have observed our central supermassive black hole. They found the accretion disk is constantly emitting flares without periods of rest. Shorter, faint flares and longer, bright flares ...
The James Webb Space Telescope offers unprecedented observations of the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center. Its findings, showcasing steady flickering and bright flares from the ...
The space telescope Gaia has created the largest three-dimensional map of the Milky Way ever. On January 15, 2025, Gaia shut ...
Using the James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers have taken a detailed look at the supermassive black hole at the heart of ...
NASA's James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive ...
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 Milky Way’s central black hole, Sagittarius A*, is an unstoppable cosmic firework show, flaring with wild bursts of energy that seem to have no pattern. Using the James Webb Space Telescope, ...
NASA scientists have detected a star and trailing exoplanet that may be sailing through the Milky Way with unprecedented ...
John Kounios is a professor of psychological and brain sciences at Drexel University. He is co-author of The Eureka Factor: Aha Moments, Creative Insight, and the Brain (Random House, 2015) and ...