This is not your garden-variety black hole.
is friendly toward such cosmic middleweights, only a handful of which have been found so far.
"It's too tiny for us to be able to explain other than it being a single black hole," Eduardo Vitral, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland and lead author of an upcoming study about the finding, said in a on Tuesday ."Alternatively, there might be a stellar mechanism we simply don't know about, at least within current physics."A Hubble Space Telescope view of the globular star cluster, Messier 4, home to several hundred thousand densely-packed stars. Astronomers now suspect that a black hole weighing as much as 800 times the mass of our sun lurks at its center.Milky Way galaxy
home — come in two sizes: Small black holes just 10 to 100 times the sun's mass, and gargantuan ones that are some millions or even billions of times heavier than the sun. Medium sized black holes, which astronomers think reside at the centers of small galaxies and feed on stars like
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