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Black holes create some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos — can stars form in such conditions?

Black holes create some of the most extreme environments in the cosmos — can stars form in such conditions?

New James Webb Space Telescope observations might be able to explain why clusters of young stars keep turning up near the Milky Way’s central black hole.

The center of the Milky Way is an exotic place dominated by powerful radiation and gravity. Young stars shouldn't form there, but they do.

Astronomers have seen a shocking wealth of young stars and ice water around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A*.

Astronomers have seen a shocking wealth of young stars and ice water around our galaxy’s supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*.

The galactic center is basically the Wild West of the Milky Way.

Astronomers discovered a baby star near the Milky Way's supermassive black hole. Scientists have discovered the heaviest and youngest newborn star ever found in the black hole located at the heart of the Milky Way galaxy.

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The occurrence of very young stars very close to the supermassive black hole has been referred to as "the paradox of youth."