It is always bubbling with activity and never seems to reach a steady state.
We observed the black hole multiple times throughout 2023 and 2024, and we noticed changes in every observation.
The recent observations were made with the telescopes near-infrared camera, or NIRCam.
An artist’s concept of Sagittarius A, surrounded by a flaring disk of hot gas.Illustration: NASA, ESA, CSA, Ralf Crawford (STScI)*
The telescope observed Sagittarius A* for 48 hours in total, taken over a year.
But the suns surface also bubbles with activity.
2025 has started with a bang (apparently, a regular cadence of them).
Those observations were taken with the Webb telescopes Mid-Infrared Instrument, or MIRI.
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