“They’re so cute when they’re babies.”
How many times have you heard someone say that and thought, “What until that grizzly cub grows up.” The only thing cuter than one grizzly cub is a whole bunch of them rolling around and playing. The same goes for baby lions, alligators and probably even sharks. What about baby black holes? Well, you can finally judge baby black hole cuteness for yourself – using the Hubble Space Telescope and the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft, NASA found a group of 60 baby black holes where it was expecting one supermassive black hole to be.
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Astronomers Find A Star Cluster Filled With Numerous Small Black Holes
Though most star clusters have a black hole at the center of their systems, astronomers were surprised to see a new cluster that actually had several small black holes in the middle rather than one large example of the mysterious space phenomenon.
According to
Space.com, researchers came across the discovery after studying the movement of stars in the NGC 6397 using NASA s Hubble Telescope and the European Space Agency s Gaia spacecraft. The cluster is around 7,800 light-years away from earth.
The data suggested that the hidden mass at the cluster s center, known as the central dark component, is filled with at least one intermediate black hole, as well more stellar-mass ones.
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