the milky way
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Black Hole Yeets Star Out Of Milky Way
Astronomers have uncovered a star leaving the galaxy at an extremely fast pace. They also found out why. Turns out, it was unceremoniously booted out by The Milky Way’s supermassive black hole.
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Our Neighbour Andromeda May Have Cannibalised Another Galaxy
Our nearest galactic neighbour, the spiral Andromeda galaxy, seems to have a history of cannibalism. New research suggests that Andromeda gobbled up another large galaxy some two billion years ago.
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Incredible New View Of The Milky Way Is The Largest Star Map Ever
The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft team has dropped its long-awaited trove of data about 1.7 billion stars. You can see a new visualisation of all those stars in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies above, but you really need to zoom in to appreciate just how much stuff there is in the map. Yes,…
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Astronomers Find Evidence Of Thousands Of Black Holes At The Centre Of Our Galaxy
An artist’s rendering of 12 black hole binaries at our galaxy’s center.Illustration: Columbia University Astronomers have long predicted that as many as 20,000 black holes could be hiding in our galaxy’s center, but so far no one has been able to spot them. Until now.