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For Over 50 Years Astronomers Looked For The Wind From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole – They Have Finally Found Ittwo overlapping clouds of different colors perfectly matching where one ends and the other begins

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For Over 50 Years Astronomers Looked For The Wind From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole – They Have Finally Found Ittwo overlapping clouds of different colors perfectly matching where one ends and the other begins
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For Over 50 Years Astronomers Looked For The Wind From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole – They Have Finally Found It

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Behold The Heart Of The Milky Way, Where A New Mysterious Cloud Has Been SpottedSeveral red stars in a group around a white cross marker that indicates where sagittarius A* is.

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Behold The Heart Of The Milky Way, Where A New Mysterious Cloud Has Been SpottedSeveral red stars in a group around a white cross marker that indicates where sagittarius A* is.
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Behold The Heart Of The Milky Way, Where A New Mysterious Cloud Has Been Spotted

clock-iconMarch 11, 2026

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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s RelativityA picture of the green bank radio dish with bheing the center of the milky way. An inset show an artist impression of the supermassive black hole and a bright pulsar sending a flash of light.

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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s RelativityA picture of the green bank radio dish with bheing the center of the milky way. An inset show an artist impression of the supermassive black hole and a bright pulsar sending a flash of light.
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Unique Pulsar May Be Orbiting Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole, Posing An Incredible Test For Einstein’s Relativity

clock-iconFebruary 10, 2026
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Defiant Stars And Unusual Objects Survive Against The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Holethe area looks like a bright colorful and wispy cloud

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Defiant Stars And Unusual Objects Survive Against The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Holethe area looks like a bright colorful and wispy cloud
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Defiant Stars And Unusual Objects Survive Against The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

clock-iconDecember 2, 2025
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Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Constantly Fizzes With Light, JWST RevealsA moment during a flare by Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy as captured by the JWST

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Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Constantly Fizzes With Light, JWST RevealsA moment during a flare by Sagitarrius A*, the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy as captured by the JWST
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Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole Constantly Fizzes With Light, JWST Reveals

clock-iconFebruary 18, 2025
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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black HoleThis artist's conception of the mid-IR flare in Sgr A* captures the apparent movement of the flare as energized electrons spiral along the magnetic field lines of the supermassive black hole, and spike its intensity.

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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black HoleThis artist's conception of the mid-IR flare in Sgr A* captures the apparent movement of the flare as energized electrons spiral along the magnetic field lines of the supermassive black hole, and spike its intensity.
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First Infrared Flare-Up Detected From The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole

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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]

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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically ChangingA dense cluster of bright stars, each with six large and two small diffraction spikes, due to the telescope’s optics. They have a variety of sizes depending on their brightness and distance from us in the cluster, and different colours reflecting different types of star. Patches of billowing red gas can be seen in and around the cluster, lit up by the stars. Small stars in the cluster blend into a background of distant stars and galaxies on black.]
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Our Understanding Of The Universe Near And Far Is Dramatically Changing

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First Ever Pair Of Stars Orbiting Each Other Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole DiscoveredAn image of the milky way as it is visible in the sky, with an zoomed in inset showing the location of Sagittarius A* and in the same field of view the new system

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First Ever Pair Of Stars Orbiting Each Other Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole DiscoveredAn image of the milky way as it is visible in the sky, with an zoomed in inset showing the location of Sagittarius A* and in the same field of view the new system
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First Ever Pair Of Stars Orbiting Each Other Near Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole Discovered

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Cosmic Drama: First Picture Of Our Supermassive Black Hole Is Not Accurate, New Study ClaimsThe event horizon telescope image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. An orange donut with some brighter spots is seen around a dark center where the black hole is

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Cosmic Drama: First Picture Of Our Supermassive Black Hole Is Not Accurate, New Study ClaimsThe event horizon telescope image of our galaxy's supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*. An orange donut with some brighter spots is seen around a dark center where the black hole is
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Cosmic Drama: First Picture Of Our Supermassive Black Hole Is Not Accurate, New Study Claims

clock-iconOctober 28, 2024
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Giant Bubbles Appear To Be Coming From Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black HoleImages showing an "exhaust vent" near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole

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Giant Bubbles Appear To Be Coming From Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black HoleImages showing an "exhaust vent" near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole
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Giant Bubbles Appear To Be Coming From Our Galaxy's Supermassive Black Hole

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An Ancient Merger Put The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole In A SpinThe first image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy reveals an unexpected rate and angle of spin.

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An Ancient Merger Put The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole In A SpinThe first image of the supermassive black hole at the heart of our galaxy reveals an unexpected rate and angle of spin.
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An Ancient Merger Put The Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole In A Spin

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our GalaxyA black hole is seen as a black semispher and around it it's a colorful stream of wispy clouds.

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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our GalaxyA black hole is seen as a black semispher and around it it's a colorful stream of wispy clouds.
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Extremely Rare Black Hole Found At The Center Of Our Galaxy

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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black HoleSagittarius A* seen in near infra-red

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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black HoleSagittarius A* seen in near infra-red
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Puzzlingly Young Stars Are Swarming Around Our Galaxy's Black Hole

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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar CannibalismA simulation of the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Density and speed both rise as one gets closer, increasing the number of collisions and changing their nature

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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar CannibalismA simulation of the orbits of stars around the supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. Density and speed both rise as one gets closer, increasing the number of collisions and changing their nature
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Zombie-Like Stars Arise From Stellar Cannibalism

clock-iconApril 4, 2024
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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black HoleThis image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. A bright donut like structure with a dark hole (the black hole) is seen covered in lines that wrap around it but not fully.

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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black HoleThis image shows the polarised view of the Milky Way black hole. The lines overlaid on this image mark the orientation of polarisation, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole. A bright donut like structure with a dark hole (the black hole) is seen covered in lines that wrap around it but not fully.
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Incredible First View Of The Magnetic Fields Around Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole

clock-iconMarch 27, 2024
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