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.

EHT Collaboration

Scientists think they've finally solved the decades-long mystery of why our Milky Way galaxy is so rare

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Illustration of what the Milky Way Galaxy may look like to a distant observer.

Courtesy of NASA

James Webb Telescope captures colorful, glittering image of the chaotic center of the Milky Way galaxy, revealing never-before-seen details

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NASA's James Webb Space Telescope captured this photo of the center of the Milky Way galaxy.

NASA, ESA, CSA, STScI, and S. Crowe (University of Virginia)

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