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New Stars Forming Uncomfortably Close to the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole


Astronomers examining a star cluster near Sgr A*, the Milky Way's supermassive black hole, found that the cluster has some unusually young members for its location. That's difficult to explain since the region so close to the powerful black hole is infused with powerful radiation and dominated by the black hole's extremely powerful gravitational force.

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