Thursday 24 September 2015

Astronomers identify a new mid-size black hole

TIME AND SPACE
Astronomers identify a new mid-size black hole
College Park MD (SPX) Sep 22, 2015 - Nearly all black holes come in one of two sizes: stellar mass black holes that weigh up to a few dozen times the mass of our sun or supermassive black holes ranging from a million to several billion times the sun's mass. Astronomers believe that medium-sized black holes between these two extremes exist, but evidence has been hard to come by, with roughly a half-dozen candidates described so far. ... more


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