Galaxy may hold hundreds of rogue black holes

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The arrow points to a candidate intermediate mass black hole in a Hubble space telescope image of a globular cluster in the M20 galaxy. Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute
The arrow points to a candidate intermediate mass black hole in a Hubble space telescope image of a globular cluster in the M20 galaxy. Credit: Space Telescope Science Institute

If the latest simulation of what happens when black holes merge is correct, there could be hundreds of rogue black holes, each weighing several thousand times the mass of the sun, roaming around the Milky Way galaxy.


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