Little middle ground for black holes

Data from far off star cluster suggests cosmos holds few, if any, mid-sized black holes.

Fingerprinting the light emanating from a cluster of stars in the constellation Virgo reveals that the glob harbors only a tiny black hole, astronomers report in the Aug. 20 Astrophysical Journal Letters.

EVERYDAY CLUSTER Pictured is the globular cluster M92 in the Hercules constellation.