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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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A mysterious object passed in front of a distant star for one hour, and it may be a primordial black hole

A brief brightening of a distant star has led astronomers to identify amysterious object that passed between Earth and the Large Magellanic Cloud. The event lasted only about an hour, yet researchers ...
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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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'Black hole police' discover a dormant black hole outside our galaxy

A team of international experts, renowned for debunking several black hole discoveries, have found a stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighbour galaxy to our own. "For the ...
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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 ...