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Black Holes at the Center of the Milky Way Are Destroying Stars at an Alarming Rate
In the dense heart of the Milky Way, not only does a supermassive black hole reign, but a cloud of stellar-mass black holes ...
Fast-moving stars reveal supermassive black hole inside nearby galaxy
The Large Magellanic Cloud is a dwarf galaxy residing near our Milky Way, visible to the naked eye as a luminous patch of ...
'Space Tornadoes' Discovered Swirling Around Milky Way's Central Black Hole
Astronomers have revealed that "space tornadoes" are swirling around the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky ...
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Astronomers Discover Evidence of a Stealthy Supermassive Black Hole Hiding Right ‘Under Our Noses’
An artist’s rendition of a hypervelocity star ejected from the Large Magellanic Cloud by a supermassive ... hole has a much lower mass than others. Sagittarius A*, for example, has four million ...
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Researchers Discover Supermassive Black Hole in Neighboring Galaxy
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky ...
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Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
New research from a team at the Harvard Center for Astrophysics suggests that the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of ...
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The best objects to view and photograph along the Milky Way
For many observers, the Milky Way's prime attraction is the northern galactic bulge from the Large Sagittarius Star Cloud up to the territory of Aquila the Eagle. Northern Hemisphere observers ...
7 breathtaking images of Star Formation captured by NASA
Discovered by Charles Messier in 1764, M20 is a star-forming nebula located 9,000 light-years away from Earth in the constellation Sagittarius. The Orion Nebula (also known as Messier 42 or NGC 1976) ...