The Milky Way suddenly got brighter and nobody knows why.

In August 2019, Scientists spotted that the centre of our own galaxy, The Milky Way became 75 times brighter in just a few hours. It was in the Near-infrared spectrum so wasn’t visible to the ‘naked eye’. This was an increase far greater and faster than ever seen before.

Some Astronomers were at a loss as to how this occurred. Some people speculated that the flare-up was caused by a star falling into the black hole at the centre. The black hole is called Sagittarius A.

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