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This image show stars orbiting very close to Sgr A* (centre), the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way. They were obtained with the GRAVITY instrument on ESO???s Very Large Telescope Interferometer (VLTI) at the end of March 2021.

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New images show our galaxy’s black hole more clearly than ever before

Astronomers have observed Sagittarius A* – the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy – with unparalleled precision

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A strange barrier is keeping cosmic rays out of the Milky Way’s centre

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Illustration of our galaxy, the Milky Way seen obliquely, with the arms and the central bar in their approximate known locations. There are four major arms and one arm fragment (Orion-Cygnus or Local) where the Sun is found. In the annotated version of this image, the yellow dot indicates the position of the Solar System about 25000 ly from the galactic core. The Norma and Outer arms are in fact the same, but the two names refer to different parts of it. The same is true of the so-called 3kpc (3 kilo-parsec) arm, which further out becomes the Perseus arm.

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Astronomers may have spotted a new spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy

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The Milky Way may have less dark matter than astronomers thought

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The Milky Way may have less dark matter than astronomers thought

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Planets near dangerous stars could shield alien life under smog

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Planets near dangerous stars could shield alien life under smog

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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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