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James Webb telescope captures 1st 'mid-infrared' flare from Milky Way's supermassive black hole

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JWST detected a 40-minute flare from Sagittarius A

on April 6, 2024 .

The black hole orbits the sun and sits 26,000 light-years away from Earth .

Until recently, astronomers had only observed flares in short-wave visible light and long-wave radio singles.

But now, astronomers have been able to detect flares in the middle part of the electromagnetic spectrum.