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There is a black hole in the center of most galaxies.
Most, if not all, large galaxies have a supermassive black hole at their center. The one at the center of our Milky Way, called Sagittarius A*, is about 4 million times the mass of our Sun. Despite its massive size, it's actually quite small compared to other galactic black holes.
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There’s a planet covered in lava oceans with winds seven times the speed of sound.
K2-141b is a planet so hot that it has oceans of molten rock and supersonic winds made of...
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There’s a planet covered in burning ice.
Gliese 436 b, a Neptune-sized exoplanet, is covered in a form of water ice that remains solid despite...
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There’s a planet that orbits its star every 18 hours.
WASP-19b orbits so close to its star that a year on this planet lasts just 18 hours. This...