mark gieles
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One Day, Black Holes Will Be All That’s Left of This Star Cluster
Some 80,000 light-years away, a group of black holes is slowly becoming the only show in town, according to a team of astronomers that recently modelled a globular cluster called Palomar 5. The cluster, which has streams of stars issuing from two arms on either side of it, will eventually be solely constituted by black…