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The Milky Way kidnapped several tiny galaxies from its neighbor

Just like the moon orbits the Earth, and the Earth orbits the sun, galaxies orbit each other according to the

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A titanic, expanding beam of energy sprang from close to the supermassive black hole in the centre of the Milky

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Scientists have now charted the cannibalistic past of the neighboring galaxy to our own – Andromeda. The large galaxy now

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About a year ago, the European Space Agency (ESA) released the Gaia galactic census that detailed the position, distance and

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Astronomers have discovered a population of incredibly fast-moving stars bearing down on the Milky Way. It is possible that these

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Ultra-faint dwarf galaxies are the smallest, most dark matter dominated, and least chemically enriched stellar systems in the universe, and

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Scientists think that at the heart of nearly every galaxy, including our own Milky Way, lies a supermassive black hole

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The Milky Way is a zombie. No, not really, it doesn’t go around eating other galaxies’ brains. But it did

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Are magnetic fields an important guiding force for gas accreting to a supermassive black hole (SMBH) like the one that

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The disk of our home galaxy – the Milky Way – is bigger than we previously thought. A new study

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The merger of the Milky Way and Andromeda galaxy won’t happen for another 4 billion years, but the recent discovery of a

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