Light Intermediate-Mass Black Holes Found

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Astronomers discovered a whole new class of black holes

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These black holes are being being being referred to as lite’ intermediate-mass black holes (IMBH) They’re extremely hard to identify because of how low-frequency their signals tend to be.

Using the LIGO and Virgo , two gravitational wave detectors, astronomers were able to find multiple black holes ranging in size from 100 to 300 times the mass of the sun.

While still massive, they are not anywhere near powerful enough to have been born from dying stars or to hold galaxies together.

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