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Astronomers reveal ‘surprising’ massive cluster of ‘ancient’ stars at the heart of our galaxy – RT

A group of international scientists has found a previously unknown “ancient stellar population” with rather unusual properties hiding in plain sight – right in …

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This large group of stars likely originated as a globular cluster somewhere in the Milky Way and drifted to its middle long ago, they said. The discovery was detailed in two papers, published in the Astrophysical Journal Letters on Monday.
The astronomers said that they came across the star cluster as they were studying a massive black hole that lies at the core of our galaxy. It’s surrounded by one of the densest fields of stars in the known universe, consisting of some 20 million celestial bo…

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