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Hubble Helps Find Smallest Known Galaxy Containing a Supermassive Black Hole

Artist's View of M60-UCD1 Black Hole
Artist’s View of M60-UCD1 Black Hole. Image Credit: NASA, ESA, STScI-PRC14-41a

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–September 18, 2014.  Astronomers using data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and ground observation have found an unlikely object in an improbable place — a monster black hole lurking inside one of the tiniest galaxies ever known.

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The black hole is five times the mass of the one at the center of our Milky Way galaxy. It is inside one of the densest…

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