Webb telescope finds Milky Way black hole never stops strobing light

Scientists have discovered that the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way buzzes with activity, shooting out a nonstop stream of flares into space. A new study using NASA's James Webb Space Telescope has revealed a variety of light coming from the black hole Sagittarius A* — or rather its accretion disk, the ring of rapidly spinning material that surrounds it. While some flares are reminiscent of the ephemeral flickers of a candle, lasting just seconds, others ar