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Author: Joshua Sokol / Source: WIRED For the first time, scientists have spotted something wobbling around the black hole at the core of our galaxy. Their measurements suggest that this stuff—perhaps made of blobs of plasma—is spinning not far from the innermost orbit allowed by the laws of

Author: Robby Berman / Source: Big Think Scientists have provided the first confirmation that what’s at the center of the Milky Way is a supermassive black hole. The discovery caught the interaction of gasses and a small star spinning around the mysterious object. This is thought to be

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News for Students Cosmic Seagull is a galaxy — a massive community of stars — some 11.3 billion light-years away. This galaxy also hosts a mystery. Its outermost stars race way too fast to be propelled just by the gravity of the galaxy’s gas and stars.

Author: Lisa Grossman / Source: Science News A distant galaxy appears filled with dark matter. The outermost stars in the Cosmic Seagull, a galaxy 11.3 billion light-years away, race too fast to be propelled by the gravity of the galaxy’s gas and stars alone. Instead, they move as if urged on by