Radio Telescope
May 29 2007, Irani

Galaxies are found to be crouching within itself, super-massive black holes, which are of the mass similar to millions of stars!

Yes, stellar mass black holes can contain the mass of a few suns! But, what was still leaving the astronomers...

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