Hubble hunts for intermediate-sized black hole close to home

Tuesday, May 23, 2023 - 10:22 in Astronomy & Space

Astronomers using the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope have come up with what they say is some of their best evidence yet for the presence of a rare class of intermediate-sized black holes, having found a strong candidate lurking at the heart of the closest globular star cluster to Earth, located 6,000 light-years away.

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