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There Could Be 100 Million Black Holes In The Milky Way

06/08/2019

Black holes are talked about so often in astronomy that it may come as a surprise to discover that we know only a few dozens of them inhabiting the Milky Way. Apart from the central supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*, all the others are at most 15 times the mass of the Sun, but in…

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The Milky Way Swallows a Smaller Galaxy?

05/11/2018

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A new study conducted by the University of Groningen suggests that the Milky Way devoured a much smaller galaxy around 10 billion years ago. Amina Helmi, and astronomer at the university says: “This is a major event in the history of the galaxy. We’re really starting to probe the ancestors of the Milky Way.” The team…