When a supermassive black hole in a nearby galaxy suddenly brightened in X-rays, astronomers watched it do something they had never seen before: within hours, the flare appeared to ignite winds racing ...

The Sun emitted two strong solar flares, peaking at 4:48 a.m. and 2:36 p.m. ET on Saturday, June 1, 2024. NASA’s Solar Dynamics Observatory, which watches the Sun constantly, captured images of the ...

On Thursday, the sun released a significant solar flare toward Earth, peaking at 11:35 a.m. EDT, scientists say. Solar flares are powerful bursts of radiation and, although harmful radiation from ...

Researchers used the Daniel K. Inouye Solar Telescope in Hawaii to take the clearest pictures ever of a powerful solar flare that occurred on Aug. 8, 2024. Credit: NSF / NSO / AURA Astronomers have ...

Satellites have detected powerful solar flares in the last two months, but this phenomenon has been recorded for over a century. On 10 September 1886, at the age of just 17, a young amateur astronomer ...