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Discovery in Omega Centauri: The Missing Link to Massive Black Hole Formation


The discovery is the best candidate for a class of black holes astronomers have long believed to exist but have never found—intermediate-mass black holes formed in early stages of galaxy evolution. Visible to the naked eye as a smudge in the night sky from Southern latitudes, Omega Centauri is a

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