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Milky Way’s graveyard of dead stars found

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The first map of the ‘galactic underworld’ — a chart of the corpses of once massive suns that have since collapsed into black holes and neutron stars — has revealed a graveyard that stretches three times the height of the Milky Way, and that almost a third of the objects have been flung out from the galaxy altogether.

Source: ScienceDaily.com