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Objects so dense that they have formed a gravitational event horizon. Anything entering the event horizon is forever trapped, including light. Stellar mass black holes are the remnants of dead stars. Supermassive black holes are at the center of most galaxies, and have a mass of millions or billions of Suns.

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VLA Finds Unexpected “Storm” at Galaxy’s Coremore_horiz
Sagittarius A in radio and X-ray
The supermassive black hole at the center of the Milky Way.more_horiz
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