The James Webb Space Telescope has captured a mid-infrared picture of Sagittarius A*, filling in a long-standing gap in observations..

Known as Sgr A* – pronounced “Sagittarius A star” – the supermassive black hole is four million times the mass of the sun and is known to exhibit flares that can be observed in multiple wavelengths, ...

"For over 20 years, we've known what happens in the radio and what happens in the near infrared, but the connection between them was never 100% clear or certain. This new observation in mid-IR ...

Sgr A*, at the heart of the Milky Way and clocking in at 4.3 million solar masses, is the closest supermassive black hole we ...

“For over 20 years, we’ve known what happens in the radio and Near-infrared (NIR) ranges, but the connection between them was never 100% clear,” said Joseph Michail, one of the paper’s ...