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Star arrangement that hid for a decade spotted at galaxy’s heart
A dense cluster of stars orbiting the black hole at the centre of the Milky Way has played hide-and-seek with astronomers for years – now we've finally seen it
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Ghost galaxy is 99.99 per cent dark matter with almost no stars
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Hyperactive galaxy could run out of gas in just 8 million years
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The brightest stellar wildfire hosts impossibly huge stars
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Small gas cloud caught blowing a huge bubble in the Milky Way
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Torn-apart galaxy may be exacting revenge on the Milky Way
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Hubble telescope looks back in time to see far-off galaxies
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Milky Way’s bulge may have been formed by the galaxy buckling
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Doomed Japanese satellite glimpsed galactic wind before it died
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Physics
Nearly naked black hole lost its ‘clothes’ to a gravity rip tide
Supermassive black holes are meant to be swaddled inside the starry cloak of a galaxy, but astronomers have just seen one that's almost bare
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Your explosive guide to the end of the universe
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Tadpole galaxy spawns stars after eating invisible gas cloud
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See a cosmic spider as it entices a nearby galaxy
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Milky Way’s nearest galaxies may be new to the neighbourhood
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