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28 ‘cocooned’ black holes found hiding in plain sight – Livescience.com
This discovery could resolve several points of confusion in X-ray astronomy and black hole physics.
More than two dozen missing “cocooned” black holes
have been rediscovered, after researchers took a new look at X-ray maps of the sky. All of these singularities had been misclassified as distant galaxies or other types of black holes.
All 28 of the objects are supermassive black holes, billions of times the mass of our sun. And all are going through a stage of development where they shroud themselves in a dark bubble of dust and other material. Those cocoons obscure the bright X-rays
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