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  • A Peek at Supermassive Black Holes

    A Peek at Supermassive Black Holes

    There are few things in the universe quite as exciting as black holes. They’re in all the movies — I even wrote a post a few years ago on what the movies get wrong about them! Though some movies, like…

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  • Exploring the Milky Way’s Nucleus

    Exploring the Milky Way’s Nucleus

    Here is an edge-on illustration of our Milky Way Galaxy. (Keep in mind that the disk actually stretches quite a bit farther out from the budge than is apparent in this illustration. Proportionally, its full diameter makes its thickness less…

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