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James Webb Space Telescope finds our Milky Way galaxy’s supermassive black hole blowing bubbles (image, video)

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an orange-and-yellow orb on a black-and-blue mottled background

The black hole at the heart of our galaxy is a real party animal, endlessly blowing cosmic bubbles. The findings aren’t frivolous at all and could help us better understand how black holes interact with their environments and help galaxies evolve. Using the James Webb Space Telescope (JWST), scientists discovered that the Milky Way’s central … Read more

‘Missing link’ black hole in the Milky Way’s densest star cluster is still missing

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New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a “missing link” black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster. The new findings imply that, rather than a rare intermediate-mass black hole, there is a cluster of stellar-mass black holes in Omega Centauri, believed to be the remains of … Read more