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(FILES) This handout infrared image from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope released on March 31, 2016 shows the centre of the Milky Way, 27 000 light-years away from Earth. Astrophysicists have detected a dozen black holes at the centre of our Milky Way galaxy, and said on April 4, 2018 there could be as many as 10,000. The find provides the first evidence for a long-held theory that the massive black hole at the core of every large galaxy should be surrounded by thousands of smaller ones, they wrote in the science journal Nature. / AFP PHOTO / ESA / Handout / RESTRICTED TO EDITORIAL USE - MANDATORY CREDIT "AFP PHOTO / NASA, ESA, and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)" - NO MARKETING NO ADVERTISING CAMPAIGNS - DISTRIBUTED AS A SERVICE TO CLIENTS