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The Milky Way’s most massive star cluster may have eaten a smaller cluster

Milky Way star cluster

This infrared image, which is 3.2 light-years across, shows the central region of the massive cluster of stars at the Milky Way’s core, about 27,000 light-years from Earth.

ESO, Stefan Gillessen et al.

By Ken Croswell

- More than 2 years ago

The Milky Way’s core harbors two giants: the galaxy’s largest black hole and a cluster of tens of millions of stars around the black hole that is denser and more massive than any other star cluster in the galaxy.