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At the centre of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A*. It is roughly 27,000 light years from Earth and 23.5 million kilometres in diameter. In a world first, a team of astronomers led by Florian Peißker from the University of Cologne, Germany, have discovered a binary star system orbiting this…
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Washington: The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes – those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful that not even light can escape – form in the violent explosion, called a supernova, of a massive dying star. But some, it turns out, may be born in a gentler fashion. Researchers have identified a…
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Washington: In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery for the first time of a brown dwarf, a body too small to be a star and too big to be a planet – sort of a celestial tweener. But it turns out that was not the full story. Researchers now have taken a fresh look at that…
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