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This beautiful image shows the Large and Small Magellanic Cloud above the ESO's Paranal Observatory and the four Auxiliary Telescopes of the Very Large Telescope (VLT) Array.
The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.
A Black Hole May Be Firing Fast Stars At Us From The Large Magellanic Cloud The Milky Way might be a cosmic bully, but this is one galaxy that’s not going down quietly.
"The Large Magellanic Cloud is one of the best-studied galaxies, yet this supermassive black hole's existence was only inferred indirectly by tracing the origins of fast-moving stars.
Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud—something that has never been detected in a smaller galaxy.
Study Reveals Evidence of Supermassive Black Hole Inside Nearby Galaxy The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, making it among the closest galaxies to the Milky ...
A team of Harvard astrophysicists discovered a supermassive black hole at the center of the Large Magellanic Cloud, the Milky Way’s closest galactic neighbor.
But what of smaller astronomical bodies, like the Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf satellite galaxy that is expected to collide with the Milky Way in 2.4 billion years? Nobody is quite sure whether ...
A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.
A hidden monster black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud fired runaway stars at the Milky Way at millions of miles per hour.