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    Center Of The Milky Way Has Thousands Of Black Holes, Study Shows

    by Nell Greenfieldboyce Apr 04, 2018 2 minutes
    An artist's rendering shows the Milky Way where a supermassive black hole lies at the center. A dozen smaller black holes have now been detected, and a new study suggests the monster is surrounded by about 10,000.

    The supermassive black hole lurking at the center of our galaxy appears to have a lot of company, according to a new study that suggests the monster is surrounded by about 10,000 other black holes.

    For decades, scientists have thought that black holes should sink to the center of galaxies and, an astrophysicist at Columbia University. But scientists had no proof that these exotic objects had actually gathered together in the center of the Milky Way.

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