Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Discovered in Nearest Star Cluster Messier 4

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Not long ago, astronauts managed to find a mysterious black hole through the Hubble Space Telescope. This mysterious black hole was discovered hidden behind the cosmic Earth.

Launching from the page Live Sciencethis black hole is located approximately 6,000 light years away at the core of the nearest star cluster Messier 4.

To note, black holes originate from the collapse of giant stars and grow by devouring gas, dust, stars, and so on. Black holes themselves are divided into two, namely stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes.

Intermediate Mass Black Holes

The recently discovered black hole is intermediate in mass and packed with the mass of 800 suns, making its closest star orbit in a swarm.

Eduardo Vitral, an astrophysicist at the Space Telescope Science Institute in Maryland revealed that medium-mass black holes are the most elusive black holes in the universe.

Not only that, the researchers revealed that no intermediate-mass black hole has been accurately confirmed to exist. This leaves many puzzles for astronomers.

Researchers also looked for the existence of medium-mass black holes using the Hubble Space Telescope to the globular star cluster Messier 4.

After that, researchers observed with Hubble and collected data to determine the stars in the cluster and study the movement in the center for 12 years.

Black Hole Locations

The researchers found that the stars were moving around something massive and could not be detected directly in the center of the cluster.

Researchers believe that it has a very small area with a lot of concentrated mass.

“It’s about three times smaller than the densest dark masses we’ve found before in other globular clusters,” Vitral said.

The region discovered by the researchers was denser than they would have thought if its gravity were stronger than that of other densely packed dead stars.

Not only that, it also takes 40 stellar-mass black holes packed into the space of a tenth of a light year to make the stars orbit very intensely.

To confirm again if they have seen this medium-mass black hole, the researchers made observations with the James Webb Space Telescope.

“To confirm that intermediate-mass black holes do exist, we took many steps,” said Timo Prusti, a project scientist at the Gaia telescope.

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