Middleweight Black Hole: Swift, XMM-Newton Satellites Tune Into X-ray Source
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 - 11:21
in Astronomy & Space
While astronomers have studied lightweight and heavyweight black holes for decades, the evidence for black holes with intermediate masses has been much harder to come by. Now, astronomers find that an X-ray source in galaxy NGC 5408 represents one of the best cases for a middleweight black hole to date.