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Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC 6099


The newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, resides in a compact star cluster on the outskirts of the elliptical galaxy NGC 6099, about 40,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center.

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