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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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The LMC is a dwarf galaxy, relatively close to the Earth (in galactic terms) at around 160,000 light years away. That may ...

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If you were lucky enough to observe a total eclipse, you are certain to remember the halo of brilliant light around the Moon ...

Cygnus X-1 was the first ever black hole discovered in the year 1960 which had 10 times more mass than the sun. It is galaxy ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.