Midsize black holes spotted forming in wreckage of stars - Space.com

Elusive intermediate-mass black holes could be growing inside dense star clusters through a runaway process of merging with stars.

It's messy out there in the universe. In the latest example, NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory has found intermediate-mass black holes that are growing by ripping apart and consuming thousands of… [+3579 chars]

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