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VLT Discovers Third Gas Cloud near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole


The newly-identified gas cloud, dubbed G2t, follows nearly the same orbit as two known clouds, suggesting they were all expelled by a pair of massive stars near the core of our Milky Way Galaxy.

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