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Astronomers Discover ‘Missing Link’ Black Hole at The Heart of a Ghostly Galaxy – ScienceAlert

A faint and ghostly galaxy 10 million light-years away has delivered one of the holy grails of black hole astronomy.

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A faint and ghostly galaxy 10 million light-years away has delivered one of the holy grails of black hole astronomy.
At its heart, lies a black hole that looks to belong to an elusive middleweight class of intermediate-mass black holes, a discovery that could help us understand how some of the most massive black holes form.
The galaxy in question is a dwarf galaxy called Mirach’s Ghost (or, less poetically, NGC 404), and it’s long been suspected to harbour one of these ‘missing link’ intermedi…

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