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A Black Hole May Be Firing Fast Stars At Us From The Large Magellanic Cloud
Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper ...
There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
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Dancing in the Dark
Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ... so brightly that when observed through a big observatory telescope, its light ...
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Young stars in the Milky Way's back yard challenge our understanding of how they form
An artist impression of young star formation in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Massive and low-mass stars appear within nebulous gas within which they are born. Credit: NSF/AUI/NSF NRAO/S.Dagnello ...