Graveyard of Suns: Milky Way’s Galactic Underworld Discovered

The Milky Way is girdled by a gargantuan necropolis of ancient dead stars bigger than the galaxy itself.

Wilson da Silva
Predict
Published in
6 min readNov 25, 2022

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A visualisation of the Milky Way [National Astrophysical Observatory of Japan]

BILLIONS OF black holes and neutron stars must have formed since our galaxy was born — but where they ended up is a mystery. A new study reveals where they lie, and that this previously…

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