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Milky Way's Largest Stellar Black Hole Discovery
ESA's Gaia mission, the Very Large Telescope and other ground-based telescopes have discovered stellar black hole Gaia BH3. It's mass is "33 times that of our Sun," according to the European Southern ...
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Milky Way's Enormous Black Hole
Sagittarius A* has been seen by human eyes with an "image produced by a global research team called the Event Horizon ...
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The Milky Way’s black hole is constantly bubbling
The disc of plasma surrounding the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way is constantly emitting flares both large and small.
Astronomers Just Found a Star System That Shouldn’t Exist Near a Supermassive Black Hole
A team of astronomers has found the first binary star system, D9, near the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*. Previously ...
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Webb Telescope provides unprecedented view of our Milky Way’s supermassive black hole
NASA’s James Webb Space Telescope is providing the best look yet at the chaotic events unfolding around the supermassive black hole at the center of our Milky Way galaxy, observing a steady flickering ...
One of the most massive black holes in the universe lurks at the center of the Cosmic Horseshoe
In 2007, astronomers discovered the Cosmic Horseshoe, a gravitationally lensed system of galaxies about 5.5 billion ...
Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic ...
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The Mysterious Oort Cloud at the Edge of the Solar System Might Have Spiral Arms Like a Tiny Galaxy
The Milky Way's tidal forces may be shaping the Oort Cloud's inner structure into a spiral shape.
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Light flares seen coming from inside of Milky Way’s black hole
(CNN) - Astronomers say they have spotted a dazzling light show from the Milky Way’s black hole. The astronomers spotted the ...
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NASA supercomputer finds Milky Way-like spiral at solar system’s edge
The inner Oort cloud, between 1,000 and 10,000 AU from the sun, displays a spiral formation with arms that extend 15,000 AU.
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Scientists see 'boom' at Milky Way's center with world's most powerful space telescope
Scientists have pointed the James Webb Space Telescope at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, which is home to the ...