Sun unleashes 2 colossal X-flares within 7 hours of each other, knocking out radio signals on Earth

The first X-flare peaked at 9:07 p.m. EDT on April 23 (0107 GMT April 24) (Image credit: NOAA GOES-19) The sun has certainly woken up! It has fired off not one but two powerful X2.5 solar flares within just 7 hours. Both eruptions came from a sunspot region on the sun's western limb, AR4419. The first solar flare peaked at 9:07 p.m. EDT on April 23 (0107 GMT April 24), followed by the second at 4:14 a.m. EDT (0814 GMT) on April 24. …