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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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When Farrell and his colleagues discovered HLX-1in 2009, it was the first intermediate-mass black hole known.
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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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It's sort of like being the only intermediate skier on a double black diamond trail in Vail or Jackson Hole.
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