What makes this black hole rare in the first place? There's a black hole right in our cosmic backyard. Astronomers from the European Space Agency (ESA) recently announced that they found an average-sized black hole about 6,000 light-years away from the Earth, which could help experts know about them and the universe.
There's something odd about the black holes discovered to date. We've found hardly any black holes in the intermediate mass range, and it's not clear why.
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When ESA s Gaia spacecraft scanned the Scorpius constellation and its ancient globular star cluster Messier 4, it captured something strange: a huge dark blob at the cluster s centre, 800 times more