Astronomers Detect Rare 'Missing Link' Black Hole in Our Closest Galactic Neighbor
In a cluster of stars in the Andromeda galaxy, aka M31, astronomers studied changes in light to identify a black hole clocking in at almost 100,000 times the mass of the Sun. That places the beast squarely in the regime of"intermediate mass" – both elusive and highly sought by astronomers for the questions they can answer.
A solid population of black holes in the intermediate mass range could help us bridge the gap, proffering a mechanism whereby stellar-mass black holes can grow into behemoths.
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Black holes: Scientists think they've spotted the mysterious birth of oneDaniel Perley is a Reader of Astrophysics at the Astrophysics Research Institute at Liverpool John Moores University. He is an observational astronomer who studies supernovas and other types of cosmic explosion. He received his PhD at the University of California, Berkeley in 2011 and has previously worked at Caltech and at the University of Copenhagen.
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