Astronomers Measure Mass and Spin of Intermediate-Mass Black Hole
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Sep 17 2021 at 3:27 PM GMT
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- The intermediate-mass black hole in question was caught in the act of swallowing a star, called a tidal disruption event.
- Dubbed 3XMM J215022.4-055108, the event occured in a star cluster associated with a lenticular galaxy at distance of almost 800 million light-years away.
- "The fact that we were able to catch this intermediate-mass black hole.
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- Published Sep 17, 2021 3:27 PM GMT