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Astronomers spot a super-rare class of black hole for the first time – Yahoo Finance Australia
“We were able to confirm that this came from a collision of two black holes,” Jani said. The individual black holes weighed roughly 85 and 65 times the mass of the sun, respectively.
Historically, the black holes that astronomers have found come in two distinct sizes: stellar black holes (aka collapsars), which are born from the implosion of dying stars and have a mass range of 5 to several tens that of their stellar mass, and supermassive black holes, which have a mass range of millions to billions that of our Sun. However, finding a black hole with a mass range that falls between the two has been exceedingly rare. Until today, that is.
An international team of astronomer…
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