New horizons: Could we be on the verge of oblivion? We’ll know on Thursday

Scientists studying a black hole in the Milky Way say they’ve unearthed a ‘groundbreaking result’ they’ll reveal then

11 May 2022 - 19:35 By WILL DUNHAM

At the centre of our spiral-shaped Milky Way galaxy is a beast — a supermassive black hole 4-million times the mass of our sun and consuming any material, including gas, dust and stars, straying within its immense gravitational pull...

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