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Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousin

  • Written by Bill Smith, Ph.D. Candidate in Physics & Astronomy, Vanderbilt University
Meet ‘lite intermediate black holes,’ the supermassive black hole’s smaller, much more mysterious cousinMerging black holes generate gravitational waves, which astronomers can track. SXS, CC BY-ND

Black holes are massive, strange and incredibly powerful astronomical objects. Scientists know that supermassive black holes reside in the centers of most galaxies.

And they understand how certain stars form the comparatively smaller stellar mass black...

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