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Water and Dust Found Surviving near Milky Way’s Central Black Hole


Using data from the NASA/ESA/CSA James Webb Space Telescope, astronomers found that IRS 3 is still forging silicate dust and harboring water molecules despite the Galaxy’s most extreme radiation environment.

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