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Baby Stars are Swarming Around the Galactic Center


The vicinity of Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*), the supermassive black hole at the Milky Way's center, is hyperactive. Stars, gas, and dust zip around the black hole's gravitational well at thousands of kilometers per hour.

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