Meet the best-known black holes in our galaxy

NASA Goddard Space Flight Center runs down the best-known Black Holes in the Milky Way galaxy and the Large Magellanic Cloud.
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Rare cosmic flare could be a mini black hole winking at us, astronomers say

In 2019, astronomers recorded a distant star in the Large Magellanic Cloud unexpectedly brightening for about an hour, a behavior unlike any known stellar phenomenon. After detailed analysis, ...
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There's a 90% chance we'll see a black hole explode within a decade, physicists say

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Simulated view of a black hole in front of the Large Magellanic Cloud. | Credit: Alain R, CC BY-SA 2.5 Stellar black holes form ...
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New research challenges black holes as dark matter explanation

The gravitational wave detectors LIGO and Virgo have detected a population of massive black holes whose origin is one of the biggest mysteries in modern astronomy. According to one hypothesis, these ...
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Is the Large Magellanic Cloud a first-time visitor?

Our most massive satellite galaxy, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), has been the center of a heated debate in the astrophysics community over the last few years. That debate centers on whether this ...