Astronomers think the object shown in this Chandra X-ray Observatory image (in box) may be an elusive intermediate-mass black hole.

天文学家们认为在上面那张钱德拉X射线天文台的图片的匣子里的物体可能是一个难以捉摸的中等质量黑洞。

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This leads the researchers to suspect that a whitedwarf star strayed too close to the intermediate-mass black hole andwas ripped apart by tidal forces.

这导致研究人员怀疑一个迷途的白矮星离某个中等质量黑洞太接近了，并受其潮汐引力的撕扯。

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This leads the researchers to suspect that a white dwarf star strayed too close to the intermediate-mass black hole and was ripped apart by tidal forces.

这导致研究人员怀疑一个迷途的白矮星离某个中等质量黑洞太接近了，并受其潮汐引力的撕扯。

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When Farrell and his colleagues discovered HLX-1in 2009, it was the first intermediate-mass black hole known.

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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.

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"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.

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