Zoom into Omega Centauri to Newly-discovered Medium-mass Black Hole
Omega Centauri is a spectacular collection of about ten million stars, visible as a smudge in the night sky from Southern latitudes. Through a small telescope, it looks no different from other so-called globular clusters: a spherical collection of stars, so dense towards the centre that it becomes impossible to distinguish individual stars. However, a new study, led by Maximilian Häberle (Max Planck Institute for Astronomy), confirms what astronomers had been suspecting—Omega Centauri contains a central black hole. The black hole appears to be the “missing link” between its stellar and supermassive kin. It is stuck in an intermediate stage of evolution. It is considerably less massive than typical black holes in the centers of galaxies. Omega Centauri seems to be the core of a small, separate galaxy whose evolution was cut short when the Milky Way swallowed it.
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https://www.mpia.de/news/science/2024-10-omega-cen-imbh
Video: T. Müller (MPIA/HdA)
Duration: 1 minute
Release Date: July 10, 2024
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