Black holes are some of the most mysterious objects that exist in our universe. Because they gobble up all of the light and matter they touch, shrouding themselves in total darkness, they’re particularly difficult to find when we peer into the night sky. Despite their natural camouflage, scientists have determined ways to locate them by measuring the way they interact with nearby objects.
Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centr
Recently, astronomers have discovered a black hole unlike any other. At one hundred thousand solar masses, it is smaller than the black holes found at the centres of galaxies, but bigger than the black holes that are born when stars explode, making made it one of the only confirmed intermediate-mass black holes, an object that long been sought by astronomers.
Using observational data from the Gemini Observatory and images from the Hubble Space Telescope, the scientists were able to determine that the object was a black hole described as a stripped nuclei.