There may not be an intermediate-mass black hole in this cluster after all, a new study shows. Illustration of the potential black holes within Omega Centauri (main) and stock image of a black ...
New research may have delivered bad news for scientists who thought they had discovered a "missing link" black hole in a dense Milky Way star cluster. The new findings imply that, rather than a ...
But it wasn't clear whether this was caused by an "intermediate mass" black hole (IMBH), weighing a hundred thousand times the mass of the Sun, or a cluster of "stellar mass" black holes ...
Astronomers thought that a swarm would be far less likely, since gravitational interactions between the black holes and other stars could send them flying out of the center of the cluster willy-nilly.