Astronomers May Have Just Discovered a Dozen Black Holes in the Center of Our Galaxy
By
Phil Charles -
Apr 06, 2018 0
Astronomers first noticed an enigmatic object, dubbed “Sagittarius A*â€, at the very heart of our Milky Way galaxy in the 1960s—the earliest days of radio and infrared astronomy. But just how extraordinary this source was only became clear three decades later, when it was identified as a supermassive black hole with the mass of a whopping four million suns.
Theory predicts that such supermassive black holes, which reside at the center of most large galaxies, should be surrounded by a cluster of smaller black holes and other objects. But decades of searches have revealed nothing—until now. In a new paper, published in Nature, a team of researchers report the discovery of what seems to be about 13 black holes close to Sagittarius A*.
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