Black Hole in a Globular Cluster (Illustration)
Medium-size black holes do exist, according to findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. Such intermediate-mass black holes provide an important link that sheds light on the way in which black holes grow.
Oddly, these black holes were found in the cores of glittering, "beehive" swarms of stars called globular star clusters, which orbit our Milky Way and other galaxies.
Globular star clusters contain the oldest stars in the universe. If globular clusters have black holes now, then they most likely had black holes when they originally formed.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2002/news-2002-18.html
Credit: NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)
Black Hole in a Globular Cluster (Illustration)
Medium-size black holes do exist, according to findings from the Hubble Space Telescope. Such intermediate-mass black holes provide an important link that sheds light on the way in which black holes grow.
Oddly, these black holes were found in the cores of glittering, "beehive" swarms of stars called globular star clusters, which orbit our Milky Way and other galaxies.
Globular star clusters contain the oldest stars in the universe. If globular clusters have black holes now, then they most likely had black holes when they originally formed.
For more information, visit: hubblesite.org/contents/news-releases/2002/news-2002-18.html
Credit: NASA and G. Bacon (STScI)