Stellar Flares Near the Milky Way’s Black Hole
Episode S3 · Ep 308 29 min 12s

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.

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