Ultra-rare black hole found hiding in the center of the Milky Way
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- Jul 25, 2024
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Black holes are born from the collapse of giant stars and grow by gorging on gas, dust, stars and other black holes. Currently, known black holes tend to fall into two general categories: stellar-mass black holes, which range from a few to a few dozen times the mass of the sun, and supermassive black holes, cosmic monsters that can be anywhere from a few million to 50 billion times as massive as the sun.
Intermediate-mass black holes — which, theoretically, range from 100 to 100,000 times the sun's mass — are the most elusive black holes in the universe. While scientists have spotted evidence for several promising candidates, no intermediate-mass black holes have been definitively confirmed to exist.
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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.
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