'Astronomers have tried to find one of these black holes for over 20 years, and now we have finally succeeded,' researcher Holger Baumgardt said.
A rare 'massive' black hole has been discovered about 18,000 light years from our planet—the closest of its type to our solar system ever found—after fast-moving stars provided 'smoking gun' evidence of its existence.The intermediate-sized black hole—thought to have a mass of 20,000 times that of our own sun—was discovered lurking in the center of a cluster of 10 million stars named Omega Centauri, according to a new paper in the journal Nature.
Stellar black holes are formed from the remnants of massive stars that have undergone supernova explosions, and usually have masses ranging from about five to 150 times the mass of our sun. Supermassive black holes are much larger, with masses ranging from hundreds of thousands to billions of times the mass of the sun. They are found at the centers of most galaxies, including our Milky Way.This black hole, with a mass of 20,000 solar masses, is therefore somewhere in between.
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