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Andromeda is coming for the Milky Way, and our galaxy is already moving toward it

Something enormous is on its way to our cosmic neighborhood. The Milky Way, along with our closest major neighbor the ...
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When a black hole winks at you: Variability identified in supermassive black hole in Andromeda galaxy

A Michigan State University researcher saw X-rays coming from a black hole using the NASA Chandra X-Ray Observatory telescope. "Every large galaxy has a supermassive black hole, but the exact nature ...
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Astronomers Find Improved Evidence for Supermassive Black Hole in Andromeda Galaxy

AUSTIN, Texas — Astronomers have used the Hubble Space Telescope to see closer to the center in our neighboring Andromeda galaxy than in any other galaxy except our own. In doing so, they dramatically ...
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Astrophysicists May Have Found a Rare Species of Black Hole in the Andromeda Galaxy

A team of astrophysicists believe that a glob of stars in our next-door galaxy is hiding an intermediate-mass black hole, a type predicted to exist but that has never been observed for certain. The ...