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Where do gas clouds feeding the Milky Way's black hole come from? Scientists may have solved the mystery

Stellar winds blowing away from a nearby binary star probably form the gas clouds.

Mysterious gas clouds near Milky Way's black hole now have a likely source

New observations and simulations by a team of researchers led by MPE reveal that a massive binary star near our galaxy's ...
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Could the Milky Way galaxy's supermassive black hole actually be a clump of dark matter?

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The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole

For decades, scientists have theorized that the Milky Way Galaxy’s supermassive black hole, known as Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), is the central anchor point for the galactic disk and its surrounding ...
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Starbirth shuts down 40,000 light-years from the Milky Way's core — and astronomers don't know why

The Milky Way is at least 100,000 light-years across, but the new results suggest that the galaxy's star formation takes ...
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Supermassive black hole in Milky Way is leaking superheated beams

Researchers are finding out more about a supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way galaxy, discovering that it has been leaking gases for several thousand years and is not the sleeping ...

Scientists Challenge Black Hole Theory, Say Dark Matter Core May Lie At Centre Of Milky Way

Lead author Valentina Crespi explained that this dense dark matter core could bend light so strongly that it creates a dark region in the centre.
Nanowerk

Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence. (Nanowerk News) Astronomers ...
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See 1st image of Milky Way’s huge black hole

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. The world’s first image of the chaotic ...
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Daring Theory Challenges the Black Hole’s Reign Over the Milky Way’s Core

There is a lot we have yet to understand about the center of the Milky Way—could it be due to a mass of invisible dark matter? Reading time 3 minutes Astronomers have yet to fully grasp the Galactic ...
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The Milky Way’s core may be dense dark matter, not a black hole

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Artistic representation of the Milky Way, where the innermost stars move at near relativistic speeds (defined as velocities that ...
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'Dark matter, not a black hole, could power Milky Way's heart'

Our Milky Way galaxy may not have a supermassive black hole at its centre but rather an enormous clump of mysterious dark matter exerting the same gravitational influence, astronomers say. They ...