There could be a supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud hurling stars at the Milky Way
Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
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Scientists Determine the Structure of a Black Hole’s ‘Corona’ for the First Time
By observing a dozen darkened black holes, including well-known systems such as Cygnus X-1 in the Milky Way and LMG X-1 in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the researchers detected patterns that ...
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Dancing in the Dark
This story appears in the December 2011 issue of National Geographic magazine. Looming near the mighty sweep of the southern Milky Way, the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds resemble detached ...