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by wthomp 1505 days ago
Unfortunately JWST won’t come close to being able to resolve Sgr A*. They measured its diameter in micro-arcseconds, whereas JWST’s limiting resolution will be measured in 10s-100s of milli-arcseconds.
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And would it even be able to see past the dust clouds and stars and stuff in front of it?

I mean if they could, they could do another longer term observation like from that clip where you can see stars swishing around it.

JWST is an infrared scope pretty much specifically so it can see through dust clouds.