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An artist's impression compares side-by-side three stellar black holes in our galaxy: Gaia BH1, Cygnus X-1 and Gaia BH3, whose masses are 10, 21 and 33 times that of the Sun respectively, in this handout image obtained by Reuters on April 16, 2024. Photo: Reuters
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Astronomers detect Milky Way's second-largest known black hole

Black holes are extraordinarily dense objects with gravity so strong that not even light can escape, making it difficult to spot them.

This handout image released by the University of Hertfordshire on January 26, 2024, shows an artists' impression of a cloud of smoke and dust being thrown out by a red giant star. Photo: Philip Lucas / University of Hertfordshire / AFP
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'Old smokers': Strange new type of star discovered in Milky Way

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Milky Way's fate? Astronomers reveal what ignites quasars

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Astronomers discover Milky Way's most-distant stars

An artist’s impression showing what the binary star system VFTS 243 – containing a black hole and a large luminous star orbiting each other - might look like if we were observing it up close is seen in this undated handout image. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the sun. ESO/L. Calcada/Handout via REUTERS
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Scientists find an exotic black hole deemed a 'needle in a haystack'

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Milky Way's secrets revealed by massive space probe map

This is the first image of Sagittarius A* (or Sgr A* for short), the supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy. It was captured by the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an array which linked together radio observatories across the planet to form a single "Earth-sized" virtual telescope. The new view captures light bent by the powerful gravity of the black hole, which is four million times more massive than our Sun. EHT Collaboration/National Science Foundation/Handout via REUTERS
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Scientists unveil image of 'gentle giant' black hole at Milky Way's center

This artist?s concept released October 30, 2017 shows a black hole with an accretion disk - a flat structure of material orbiting the black hole ? and a jet of hot gas, called plasma. NASA/JPL-Caltech/Handout via REUTERS
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Black hole hunters cast gaze at center of the Milky Way galaxy

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Astronomers find ‘spooky’ object in the Milky Way unlike anything seen before

Since the star is located in a dense region of the Milky Way, the researchers considered whether some unknown dark object could have simply drifted in front of the giant star by chance. Photo: Hindustan Times
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Astronomers spot giant 'blinking' star near Milky way

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Latest map of 2B Milky Way stars likely to reveal Galaxy’s deepest secrets

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‘Baby’ Milky Way discovered 12 bln light years away

Photo for representation. The Sun is more than 4.5 billion years old/ LiveMint-Nasa
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New planet discovered in orbit of young Milky Way star