Intermediate-mass black hole
Wednesday, July 1, 2009 - 12:28
in Astronomy & Space
The detection of an ultraluminous X-ray source is now the strongest observational evidence for the existence of intermediate-mass black holes, as reported in a paper titled 'An intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO 243-49' in the most recent issue (2 July) of the journal Nature...
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