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Tiny Galaxies Reveal Secrets of Supermassive Black Holes

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How to Find Dwarf Galaxies

Dwarf galaxies are relatively uncharted astronomical territory. They're ten to 100 times lighter than the milky way, and they lack the gravitational ump to pull themselves into tidy round shapes amenable to theorizing. The tiny tangles of stars harbor secrets that larger galaxies have forgotten. Now astronomers have come up with fresh ways to find more of these hidden giants.

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