There goes the neighborhood. American Astronomers discovered a black hole in a Henize 2-10, a galaxy some 30 million light years away from the earth. According to the scientists, the black hole has roughly a million times the mass of our own sun.
Henize 2-10 has been the target of much study, as of late. Scientist have observed its ability to birth starts quite rapidly. It’s one of the few dwarf galaxies known to sport a massive black hole–they usually reside in much larger galaxies.
“This galaxy probably resembles those in the very young universe, when galaxies were just starting to form and were colliding frequently,” the University of Virgina’s Kelsey Johnson told AFP. “All its properties, including the supermassive black hole, are giving us important new clues about how these black holes and galaxies formed at that time.”
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