This new photo of a supermassive black hole is unlike any before, showing powerful magnetic fields spiraling around it

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black hole polarization image shows a circle of bright yellow and diffuse orange light in the blackness of space with lines swirling in one direction along the circle and a black spot in the middle
The Event Horizon Telescope's polarized view of Sagittarius A*. The lines mark the orientation of polarization, which is related to the magnetic field around the shadow of the black hole.

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This App Points You Straight at the Milky Way's Supermassive Black Hole

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If you want to stay grounded—which is to say, you want a haunting reminder of your own diminutive size and mortality—do I have the tool for you.

The black hole at the center of the Milky Way is spinning so fast, it's squishing space-time down like a football

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milky way galaxy with zoomed in section on black hole
A cross-section showing Sagittarius A* at the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

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Hundreds of Thousands of Stars Shine in New Hubble Space Telescope Image

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Behold the celestial bounty of space. In an image recently taken by the Hubble Space Telescope, a proliferation of stars in the globular cluster Terzan 12 shine through interstellar gas and dust, making the entire image glow with activity.

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