The James Webb Space Telescope has detected water molecules near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way — but the real discovery is much stranger than the headline suggests.
Using JWST’s powerful MIRI instrument, astronomers examined IRS 3, an evolved star located only about 0.55 light-years from Sagittarius A* in projected separation. Webb revealed that IRS 3 is surrounded by an enormous oxygen-rich envelope …
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