Hypervelocity stars (HVSs) were first theorized to exist in the late 1980s. In 2005, the first discoveries were confirmed.
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Researchers have observed strange goings-on around a supermassive black hole located nearly 300 million light years away.
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An international team of researchers has detected a binary star orbiting near Sagittarius A*, the supermassive black hole ...
Observations from the James Webb Space Telescope reveal monster black holes in the early universe that seem to have grown too ...
Rapid X-ray oscillations detected near the innermost orbit of a supermassive black hole could indicate the presence of a nearby orbiter such as a white dwarf ...