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Astronomers have detected a mid-infrared flare from the supermassive black hole at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy for the ...

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The galaxy, located in the constellation Leo, is about the same size as a star cluster within the Milky Way and is about the ...

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Leo P, a tiny galaxy, stopped making stars after the universe’s reionization. Unlike most galaxies, it restarted billions of ...