Artist's Conception of Intermediate-mass Black Hole (1 of 2) (IMAGE)

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Artist's Conception of Intermediate-mass Black Hole (1 of 2)

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In this artist's illustration, an intermediate-mass black hole in the foreground distorts light from the globular star cluster in the background. New research suggests that a 2,200 solar-mass black hole resides at the center of the globular cluster 47 Tucanae.

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CfA / M. Weiss

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