Welcome to This Week in Outer Space, where you’ll find a roundup of the best space coverage from Yahoo News and our partners from the past week or so. This week we’ve got black holes behaving badly, some less-than-stellar news about China’s mars rover and more. (NASA/JPL-Caltech/UArizona)In other international space news, China’s version of the Mars rover, the Zhurong rover, seems not to be doing a lot of roving. First up, a supermassive black hole at the center of our galaxy appears to be slurping up a giant cloud of dust orbiting around it. The black hole, Sagittarius A, is surrounded by a dust filament about 50 times the mass of the Earth.
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