Thursday, August 13, 2015

Astronomers discover the smallest known supermassive black hole

Here's a cosmic contradiction: A tiny supermassive black hole. Astronomers using the Magellan II telescope in Chile and NASA’s Chandra X-ray Observatory have discovered the smallest supermassive black hole yet found at the center of a dwarf galaxy. http://www.latimes.com/science/sciencenow/la-sci-tiny-supermassive-black-hole-dwarf-galaxy-oxymoron-20150812-story.html
Article courtesy of The Los Angeles Times by Amina Khan

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