The star passes very close to the Milky Way's supermassive black hole and could reveal the black hole's spin by tracking how it warps the star's orbit.
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Astronomers have uncovered concrete evidence of the earliest known galactic merger in the Milky Way's history.
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Einstein's abandoned cosmological constant made a spectacular comeback when astronomers discovered that the universe's expansion is accelerating. It now sits at the heart of our best cosmological model--a model that works extraordinarily well, yet .. ...
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"Our picture of this object is evolving very rapidly," says lead author Rohan Naidu, a NASA Hubble Fellow and Pappalardo Fellow at MIT's Kavli Institute for Astrophysics ...
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Astronomers may finally have a clue to what happens to the mysterious "little red dots" that crowded the early universe. By studying a spiral galaxy nicknamed the "Saguaro," researchers found a compact, bright red center that closely resembles these ...
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