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Supermassive Black Hole Likely Lurking in Milky Way's Nearest Neighbor

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Astronomers have found what appears to be the closest supermassive black hole outside of our own Milky Way galaxy.

This giant black hole is in the Large Magellanic Cloud, the closest satellite galaxy to our own.

Researchers traced the paths of 21 stars on the outskirts of the Milky Way using data from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission.

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