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LIGO first detects gravitational waves

VLTI/Gravity provides first observation of material orbiting close to the point of no return

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Dense mass at the center of M87 galaxy is theorized

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By 1978, Wallace Sargent and colleagues had determined that a dense mass five billion times the mass of our Sun lies at the centre of the nearby galaxy M87.

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Published in 12/04/2019

Updated in 19/02/2021

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