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Saturday, 13 July 2024
Stars hint at an unusual black hole lurking in our Galaxy
Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size black hole in the star cluster ω Centauri. Midsize black holes occupy the no-man’s land between the ‘super massive’ ones thought to lie at the centre of most galaxies and much smaller ones that have about as much mass as a single large star. So far, most candidates have turned out to be neutron stars upon closer inspection.
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