Hubble Uncovers a Concentration of Small Black Holes (IMAGE)

NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

Hubble Uncovers a Concentration of Small Black Holes

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The amount of mass a black hole can pack away varies widely from less than twice the mass of our Sun to over a billion times our Sun's mass. Midway between are intermediate-mass black holes weighing roughly hundreds to tens of thousands of solar masses. So, black holes come small, medium, and large.

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NASA, ESA, T. Brown, S. Casertano, and J. Anderson (STScI)

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