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CSI: Milky Way

March 6, 2013

There is growing evidence that, several million years ago, the center of the Milky Way galaxy was the site of all manner of celestial fireworks, and a pair of astronomers from Vanderbilt University and the Georgia Institute of Technology propose that a single event--a black hole collision--can explain all the "forensic" clues. Illustration by Julie Turner, Vanderbilt University Full Story

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