The accretion disk orbiting Sagittarius A* is emitting a constant stream of flares with no periods of rest, according to an analysis of new data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope; while some flares are faint flickers, lasting mere seconds, other flares are blindingly bright eruptions, which spew daily; there also are even fainter flickers that surge for months at a time. This artist’s concept portrays the supermassive black hole at...
