intermediate mass black hole
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Astronomers Surprised By a Distant Black Hole Roaring Back to Life
The distant object suddenly started feeding after a prolonged silence.
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Astronomers Spot Two Supermassive Black Holes on a Collision Course
Through a standard telescope, the nearby galaxy NGC 7727 looks like a gossamer tumbleweed drifting in the night sky. But within it are two supermassive black holes locked in a dance that will end with their violent merger. As a team of astronomers recently found, these objects are closer to Earth than any other supermassive…
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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad
About 7,800 light-years away — within our galactic neighbourhood — is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity. That bunch of stars was previously thought to have an intermediate-sized black hole at its centre. But upon further inspection, a team from the Paris Institute of Astrophysics has determined that…
