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Ben Turner

James Webb Space Telescope discovers mysterious flares near the Milky Way's monster black hole

An illustration of a black circle in space shooting a beam of light out of its center.

Astronomers have used the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) to take the longest look yet at our galaxy's supermassive black hole — and it's frothing with unusual activity.

Situated 26,000 light-years away in the center of the Milky Way, Sagittarius A* is a gargantuan tear in space-time that is 4 million times the mass of the sun and 14.6 million miles (23.5 million kilometers) wide.

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