Giant black hole discovered near Milky Way galaxy
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The newly discovered black hole is reportedly the same size as the Milky Way's suspected black hole.
New Delhi: Scientists have recently discovered a large black hole at the heart of one of the Milky Way’s satellite galaxies, which is reportedly the same size as the Milky Way's suspected black hole. The newly detected black hole has been found in the Leo I dwarf galaxy.
According to the researchers, the newly discovered black hole has a mass of roughly 3.3 million solar masses or around 16% of its galaxy's total mass.
“You have a very small galaxy that is falling into the Milky Way, and its black hole is about as massive as the Milky Way’s,” astronomer Karl Gebhardt, who is the co-author of the paper, told SciTechDaily.
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