Claire. Posted April 28, 2017 #1 Share Posted April 28, 2017 Astronomers find black hole in Sagittarius constellation An international team of astronomers led The University of Manchester have found evidence of a new 'missing-link' black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, hidden in the Sagittarius constellation. The black hole is located approximately 26,000 light years, or 7.9 Kiloparsecs (kpc), from Earth in a globular cluster called, NGC 6624. A globular cluster is a gravitationally bound swarm of millions of old stars occupying regions that are just a few light years across. Read more: Phys.org 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
aka CAT Posted April 28, 2017 #2 Share Posted April 28, 2017 (edited) Either the Sagittarius constellation was formerly only the most plausible candidate for the location of a supermassive black hole (SMBH) or I'm experiencing the Mandela Effect. In any case, after scientists' monitoring a pulsar* for over a quarter of a century, they now believe it "most likely [to be] orbiting around an intermediate-mass black hole (IMBH) located at the cluster's centre." The main differences' being the size of the black hole and experts' certainty of its being orbited by *PSR B1820 30A. Edited April 28, 2017 by aka CAT 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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