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100,000 Solar mass intermediate Black hole discovered in our galaxy... September 4, 2017 5:06 pm RL

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41550-017-0224-z

The kinematical structure of CO–0.40–0.22 can be explained as being due to a gravitational kick experienced by the molecular cloud caused by an invisible compact object with a mass of about 10^5M⊙. The compactness and absence of a counterpart at other wavelengths suggest that this massive object is an inactive IMBH, which is not currently accreting matter. This is the second-largest black hole candidate in the Milky Way galaxy after Sgr A*, as well as the second IMBH candidate in the Galaxy after that in the nuclear subcluster IRS13E (MBH ≈ 1,300M⊙).

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