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Astronomers find a treasure trove of black holes in small galaxies
Astronomers find a treasure trove of black holes in small galaxies,We know that essentially all big galaxies, like our own Milky Way, have supermassive black holes in their centers. We also strongly suspect these enormous monsters with millions or billions of times the Sun’s mass may have grown from smaller “seed” black holes called intermediate-mass black holes — or IMBHs — which have thousands to hundreds of thousands of solar masses.

Astronomers find a treasure trove of black holes in small galaxies

We know that essentially all big galaxies, like our own Milky Way, have supermassive black holes in their centers. We also strongly suspect these enormous monsters with millions or billions of times the Sun’s mass may have grown from smaller “seed” black holes called intermediate-mass black holes — or IMBHs — which have thousands to hundreds of thousands of solar masses.