47 Tucanae black hole

February 8, 2017

Artists rendering of black hole — Download black_hole_2_0.jpg

This artist's conception shows another representation of the intermediate-mass black hole that may lurk in the center of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.

B. Kızıltan & T. Karacan

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All known black holes fall into two categories: small, stellar-mass black holes weighing a few Suns, and supermassive black holes weighing millions or billions of Suns. Astronomers expect that intermediate-mass black holes weighing 100 – 10,000 Suns also exist, but so far no conclusive proof of such middleweights has been found.
- February 8, 2017
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47 Tucanae black hole

A Middleweight Black Hole is Hiding at the Center of a Giant Star Cluster