The region near the Milky Way’s centre is dominated by the supermassive black hole that resides there. Sagittarius A*’s overwhelming gravity creates a chaotic region where tightly packed, high-speed stars crash into one another like cars in a demolition derby. These collisions and glancing blows change the stars forever. Some become strange, stripped-down, low-mass stars, …



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