The discovery is the best candidate for a class of black holes astronomers have long believed to exist but have never found—intermediate-mass black holes formed in early stages of galaxy evolution.

Researchers confirmed an intermediate-mass black hole in Omega Centauri's center, supporting theories of its origin as a ...

Seven strangely-behaving stars in the Milky Way's Omega Centauri cluster may be under the influence of an extremely rare type ...

The paths of seven fast-moving stars in the center of the cluster indicate the presence of an intermediate-mass black hole.

An international team of astronomers has used more than 500 images from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope spanning two ...

"Astronomers have tried to find one of these black holes for over 20 years, and now we have finally succeeded," researcher ...

Images taken by the Hubble Space Telescope point to an elusive intermediate-size black hole in the star cluster Omega ...

What keeps University of Utah researcher Anil Seth up at night and brimming with enthusiasm? The discovery of what he and other scientists say is the best solid evidence so far indicating a black hole ...

Omega Centauri is about 10 times as massive as other big globular clusters – almost as massive as a small galaxy – and ...

The black hole, if confirmed, is in the star cluster Omega Centauri, about 17,700 light-years away, and it could hold lessons ...

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Most known black holes are either extremely massive, like the supermassive black holes that lie at the cores of large ...