Monday, August 18, 2014

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News

ScienceDaily: Astronomy News


Fascinating rhythm: Light pulses illuminate a rare black hole

Posted: 17 Aug 2014 07:00 PM PDT

Astronomers have accurately measured -- and thus confirmed the existence of -- a rare intermediate-mass black hole about 400 times the mass of our sun in a galaxy 12 million light years from the Milky Way. The finding uses a technique never applied in this way before, and opens the door to new studies of these mysterious objects.

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