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Our Galaxy’s Supermassive Black Hole May Have Had a Companion in the Past
Could there have been two massive black holes in our galaxy’s center at one time? New research suggests that this scenario could explain oddities in the population of hypervelocity stars in the Milky Way’s halo.
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