Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole

This episode explores how the South Pole Telescope detected powerful millimeter-wave stellar flares near the Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.Triggered by magnetic reconnection, these bursts reveal how stars and their magnetic fields survive in one of the galaxy’s most extreme, dust-shrouded regions.Thank you for listening to Bedtime Astronomy — your guide to the cosmos. New episodes on space exploration, NASA missions & the latest astronomy breakthroughs.This episode includes AI-generated content.