Webb observations of star near Milky Way’s supermassive black hole leads to discovery

The James Webb Space Telescope has made a groundbreaking discovery near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way. Observations of the star IRS 3 show that dust and water can form and survive in the extreme environment surprisingly close to the black hole.


Credit: Space.com | footage courtesy: ESA/Webb, NASA & CSA, P. Peißker, J. Lu, F. Yusef-Zadeh, N. B. Sabha, C. Chan, N. Bartmann (ESA/Webb) | edited by Steve Spaleta