A middleweight black hole has been spotted for the first time in our galaxy
The find could help link smaller black holes and the behemoths at galaxies’ centers
If a rare midsize black hole truly does lurk in the heart of the Omega Centauri star cluster, it would be the first black hole of its size found in the Milky Way. In this Hubble Space Telescope image, the supposed black hole’s location is marked by the white box.
Hubble/ESA, NASA, M. Häberle/MPIA