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I hate everything about this kind of thing when app devs do this, the apps work great but all I want to do is for it to learn the way I type and not have to give it all those permissions in order to do that!
 
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Astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope have found a cluster of young, blue stars in the spectacular edge-on galaxy (ESO 243-49 above), encircling the first intermediate-mass black hole ever discovered. The presence of the star cluster suggests that the black hole was once at the core of a now-disintegrated dwarf galaxy. The discovery of the black hole and the star cluster has important implications for understanding the evolution of supermassive black holes and galaxies.
"For the first time, we have evidence on the environment, and thus the origin, of this middle-weight black hole," said Mathieu Servillat, who worked at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics when this research was conducted.

Astronomers know how massive stars collapse to form stellar-mass black holes (which weigh about 10 times the mass of our sun), but it's not clear how supermassive black holes (like the four million solar-mass monster at the center of the Milky Way) form in the cores of galaxies. One idea is that supermassive black holes may build up through the merger of smaller, intermediate-mass black holes weighing hundreds to thousands of suns.


Trying to comprehend a black hole, let alone many of them merging into a supermassive one, is just mind numbing. Just thinking about how a dense object that not even light can escape and that of which has no 'time' at its centre is painful enough! And then there's the fact that they're moving with their respective galaxies!
 
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