Rare Mid-Sized Black Hole Discovered In Old Probe Data - HD

Michael500ca 2014-08-20

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NASA's decommissioned Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) satellite is still bearing fruit with the discovered of the object in the Messier 82 galaxy. The black hole (M82 X-1) weighs in at about 400 solar masses.

Credit: NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center

http://www.space.com/26857-medium-size-black-hole-discovery-m82.html

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