Regions of space where gravity is so strong that nothing, not even light, can escape, including the supermassive black hole at the centre of the Milky Way and stellar-mass black holes found in X-ray binaries. An object belongs here when its cited article calls it a black hole. Members are placed here from their own cited Wikipedia articles, each with a verbatim supporting quotation, so a reader can check why an entry sits in this group. The grouping forms part of the browse path for this section of the atlas.
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Sagittarius A* (Wikipedia)
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Sagittarius A*, abbreviated as Sgr A* ( SADGE-AY-star), is the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.
Cygnus X-1 (Wikipedia)
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Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole.
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