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Something Unexpected Is Spewing Stars Into the Milky Way

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The Large Magellanic Cloud, a dwarf galaxy neighboring the Milky Way, hosts a gravitational structure hundreds of thousands of times the mass of the sun.

The most widely accepted theory of galactic evolution holds that supermassive black holes are found only in the largest galaxies.

The study used data from the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission to map millions of stars to calculate their motion.