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A New Way of Looking at the Milky Way’s Supermassive Black Hole
The Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration has analyzed data that show our home galaxy’s central black hole in a new light — polarized light, to be precise.
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How to Slice a Star
Massive stars are not typically inclined to go gentle into the good night. Some, new work suggests, might dramatically cut themselves in two using a “relativistic blade.”