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A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black ... Map of the Milky Way plane obtained from data from the Gaia ...

Spanning about 94,000 light-years, NGC 300's galactic disk is a little smaller than the Milky Way and packs only about 2% of its stellar mass. "NGC 300 is an ideal candidate for such a study ...