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Astronomers discover concentration of small black holes – Sify News
Washington, Feb 12 (IANS) In an unexpected finding, astronomers have discovered a concentration of smaller black holes, instead of one massive black hole, lurking…
These systems are also typically very old — the globular cluster at the focus of this study, NGC 6397, is almost as old as the universe itself.
This cluster resides 7,800 light-years away, making it one of the closest globular clusters to Earth. Due to its very dense nucleus, it is known as a core-collapsed cluster.
At first, astronomers thought the globular cluster hosted an intermediate-mass black hole.
These are the long-sought “missing link” between supermassive black holes — many millions…
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