Grim Reaper 6 Posted July 14 #1 Share Posted July 14 Now, researchers at the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy have confirmed this suspicion with a detailed study of stellar trajectories within the cluster. The researchers compiled a massive catalog of the motions of stars within Omega Centauri, calculating the velocities of 1.4 million stars from 500 Hubble images. They ultimately focused attention on seven fast-moving stars in the central region, which exhibited speeds and movements that could only be explained by an unseen gravitational body. Here's the cool part: This black hole represents a missing link between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes—an intermediate-mass black hole, which has been predicted but never before observed. The reason that it's so much smaller than the black holes normally found in the cores of galaxies is because Omega Centauri itself is frozen in time—with its stable population of core stars and lacking an outer population of stars, the black hole can't feed and increase its mass.. https://phys.org/news/2024-07-saturday-citations-goldilocks-black-hole.html. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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