"The fact that there's a very young cluster of stars indicates that the intermediate-mass black hole may have originated as the central black hole in a very low-mass dwarf galaxy, "Sean Farrell, of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in Australia, said in a statement.
When Farrell and his colleagues discovered HLX-1in 2009, it was the first intermediate-mass black hole known.
Those unseen and isolated stellar mass black holes that could lie almost as close as the nearest stars.
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Using their least conservative assumptions, the researchers found that less than 2% of the globular clusters should contain intermediate mass black holes today.
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Using their most conservative assumptions, Dr Bockelmann and colleagues found that even if every globular cluster started out with an intermediate mass black hole, only about 30% retained them through successive mergers.
In the galaxy NGC 1277, astronomers have discovered a black hole with the mass of 17 billion suns.
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Ascertaining the binary nature of the system also allowed the astronomers to make their accurate measurement of the bigger black hole's mass.
Even though the black hole contains a mass equal to a billion suns, it is compacted into an area about the size of the solar system.
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Using their new technique, they estimated the black hole has a mass of some 900 billion trillion trillion tonnes - on the heavy side even in the supermassive stakes.
It had previously been suggested that black holes up to this mass might exist in quasars, but this is the first direct confirmation.
Depending on its initial mass, it might collapse to a compact hot star known as a white dwarf (when the star's mass is less than 1.4 times the mass of our sun) or to a neutron star (for stars 1.4 to about three times the mass of our sun) or to a black hole (for stars more massive than three times the mass of our sun).
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Some galaxies contain black holes with billions of times the mass of the sun, occupying a volume no bigger across than the orbit of Neptune around our solar system but extending their influence through a cosmic bubble 30 million light years across.
Such black holes ranging in size from 1, 000 to 10, 000 times the mass of the sun should sit inside globular clusters like scaled-down versions of galactic black holes at least in theory.
Even more fascinating, the supermassive black hole is about 14% of the total mass of the galaxy.
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Using these two instruments, the scientists were able to examine the event and determine that the mass of the planet being devoured by the black hole was somewhere between 14-30 times that of Jupiter.
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These winds are generated in a swirling mass of matter around the equatorial region of a black hole, the accretion disk.
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Our own galaxy, the Milky Way, has a colossal black hole at its core, too, which is some three million times the mass of our Sun.
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The boardwalk is the obvious draw, a tourist attraction stretching about four miles along the coast with a diverse mass of humanity -- rich and poor, young and old, black and white, families and miscreants -- tromping up and down the wooden slats.
Like most worshippers she arrived have dressed immaculately for mass, her hair tumbling in salon-created curls, wearing a tidy black skirt, low-heeled pumps and a striped shirt.
When this sort of star implodes, to create a black hole, it generates jets of material that punch their way out of the collapsing mass at near light-speed, to produce extremely high-energy emissions of light.
Suspicions are that the dig has revealed a "plague pit" -- one of many mass graves used to dispose of the bodies of those who succumbed to the Black Death, or bubonic plague, in the 14th century.
Pointing towards a bluish mass of ice in a distant valley, he explains that in the 1930s the Black Rapids Glacier became the fastest moving ever recorded, sometimes advancing as much as 200 feet a day.
Many young men in black T-shirts bearing the logo of the Fatah Youth Movement were also present to help control the mass of people.
Deputy Hales says privately owned buses careened thru Santiago's streets, belching black smoke and competing for passengers in what appeared to be more a high-speed chase than a mass transit system.
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