10 Facts about Space that will blow your mind

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There is a supermassive black hole at the heart of every galaxy.

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The Universe has the same temperature everywhere.

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95% of the Universe is invisible.

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The Universe was born.

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Most of the stuff in the Universe has repulsive gravity.

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The Sun is producing only a third of the neutrinos expected.

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Most planetary systems are different from ours.

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The first gravitational waves detected came from a binary black hole system nobody predicted.

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We appear to be alone.

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