Scientists discover strange form of black hole at the heart of Milky Way Telegraph Reporters
4 SEPTEMBER 2017 • 5:41PM
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/09/04/scientists-discover-strange-form-ofblackhole-heart-milky-way/strange form of black hole has been detected for the first time at the heart of the Milky Way.
It's a "mini-me" version of its neighbouring supermassive "cousin" - shedding light on how it formed.
Looming in the middle of every galaxy, supermassive black holes weigh as much as ten billion suns - fuelling the birth of stars and deforming the fabric of space-time itself.
But the mass of the newly identified black hole is only about 100,000 times that of our sun - placing it in the "intermediate sized" class.
These were believed to exist but none had ever actually been identified - until now.
Lying about 25,000 light years from Earth it could help answer one of the really big questions - how did the Milky Way evolve?
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Now the mystery could be solved by the identification of the intermediate-type black hole - something astrophysicists suspected were around but for which there have been only tentative candidates in the past.
It's believed they could be the seeds of their more massive counterparts - merging together to form a gigantic one. intermediate black holes might simply turn out to be their progenitors.
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