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University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory: Texas Astronomers Discover Strangely Massive Black Hole in Milky Way Satellite Galaxy
December 02, 2021
FORT DAVIS, Texas, Dec. 2 (TNSJou) -- The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory issued the following news release:

Astronomers at The University of Texas at Austin's McDonald Observatory have discovered an unusually massive black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way's dwarf satellite galaxies, called Leo I. Almost as massive as the black hole in our own galaxy, the finding could redefine our understanding of how all galaxies -- the building blocks . . .

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