The Giant Magellanic Cloud could have its personal supermassive black gap
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A supermassive black gap within the Giant Magellanic Cloud (LMC) could be the supply of 9 stars zooming by means of our galaxy – a stunning trace that dwarf galaxies can host giant black holes.
“That is the primary compelling proof for a supermassive black gap in [a dwarf] galaxy,” says Jiwon Jesse Han on the Harvard-Smithsonian Heart for Astrophysics in Massachusetts. He estimates the mass of the black gap contained in the LMC can be about 600,000 occasions that of the solar. For comparability,…
