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Astronomers Looking for One Black Hole May Have Found an Entire Squad – Gizmodo
About 7,800 light-years away—within our galactic neighborhood—is globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity. That bunch of stars…
About 7,800 light-years awaywithin our galactic neighborhoodis globular cluster NGC 6397, basically a wad of stars held together by gravity. That bunch of stars was previously thought to have an intermediate-sized black hole at its center. But upon further inspection, a team from the Paris Institute of Astrophysics has determined that the cluster actually hosts a pod of smaller black holes, holding things together in a more diffuse system.
Previous research had suggested that the clusters core…
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