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Swarm of dusty young stars discovered around our Milky Way’s central black hole

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Enlarge / The Milky Way’s central black hole is in a very crowded environment. Supermassive black holes are voracious. Clumps of dust and gas are often disrupted by turbulence and radiation when they get pulled too close. So why are some of them orbiting the edge of the Milky Way’s own supermassive monster, Sgr A*? … Read more

Super-fast baby stars circle like a swarm of bees around the supermassive black hole Sgr A*

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This article was reviewed according to Science fact checked peer-reviewed publication trusted source proofread OK! Multiwavelength finding plot of the innermost ≈0.4 pc. of the galactic center observed in the K-band (red) and L-band (blue), observed with NACO (VLT). Credit: Astronomy and astrophysics (2024). DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/202449729 × close to Multiwavelength finding plot of the innermost … Read more