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This image of the area around galactic centre is a composite of images taken in X-ray, optical, and infrared wavelengths

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The centre of our galaxy may be swarming with 10,000 black holes

We knew that the centre of the Milky Way was home to a supermassive black hole. But now we’ve also spotted evidence of 10,000 smaller black holes flanking it

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Centre of the Milky Way

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Why 2018 is looking like it will be the year of the black hole

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Have we just found thousands of planets outside our galaxy?

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Dancing galaxies may shake up our ideas of galaxy formation

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Emission nebula Sharpless 2-106

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The ugly, fractured reality of the cosmos deserves our attention

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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Weird tiny galaxies found hiding in Hubble’s Ultra Deep Field

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Galaxies

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We've found a bunch of dwarf galaxies we thought didn't exist

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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away

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We found our galactic twin 180 million light years away

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Why our 'freakish' galaxy has got cosmologists seriously worried

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Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

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Giant black hole seen flickering on and off after galaxy snack

Active Galactic Nuclei occur when a black hole devours a cloud of gas and dust and shines really brightly. Now one has been seen doing it twice

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Half the universe’s missing matter has just been finally found

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Spiralling galaxy arms spread oxygen around for future planets

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Hidden pockets of turbulent gas fuel stars in far-off galaxies

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Speedy white dwarf may have survived a rare type of supernova

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