AdvertisementAn elusive mid-sized black hole that was tearing apart a wayward star has been spotted by astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope. They say it is larger than the black holes created by the collapse of giant stars but smaller than the supermassive black holes at the centre of galaxies. The white circle in this Hubble Space Telescope image shows the mid-sized black hole that weighs 50,000 times the mass of the Sun. 'Studying the origin and evolution of the intermediate mass black holes will finally give an answer as to how the supermassive black holes that we find in the centres of massive galaxies came to exist,' added Webb. Lin says he and other black hole astronomers find they have many more exciting questions to pursue.

Source: Daily Mail April 01, 2020 15:43 UTC