A rare type of black hole never proven to exist could be orbiting our galaxy right now, Hubble telescope reveals
The Hubble Space Telescope may have just found a rare"missing link" black hole hiding in Earth's cosmic backyard.
Related: James Webb Space Telescope discovers oldest black hole in the universe — a cosmic monster 10 million times heavier than the sun This poses a puzzle for astronomers. If black holes grow from stellar to supermassive size by gorging themselves in an endless feeding frenzy, the lack of confirmed sightings of black holes in their awkward teenage phases points to an even bigger hole in our understanding of the cosmic monsters.
"We have good confidence that we have a very tiny region with a lot of concentrated mass," Vitral said."It's about three times smaller than the densest dark mass that we had found before in other globular clusters." "The consequences are that they would merge and/or be ejected in a game of interstellar pinball," the researchers wrote in the statement.
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