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Hubble goes looking for a rare black hole, finds something even weirder – SlashGear

Today, NASA shared a rather interesting update about the goings-on of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers with the Paris Institute of Astrophysics (IAP) were…

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Today, NASA shared a rather interesting update about the goings-on of the Hubble Space Telescope. Astronomers with the Paris Institute of Astrophysics (IAP) were using the telescope to study globular cluster NGC 6397, where they were looking for an intermediate-mass black hole. Globular systems, as NASA describes them, are “extremely dense stellar systems, which host stars that are closely packed together,” with NGC 6397 in particular only about 7,800 light-years away from Earth.
The astronomers…

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