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Middleweight black hole suspected near Milky Way’s center

Turbulent gas cloud suggests presence of strong gravitational influence

black hole illustration

COSMIC CONTENDER  A black hole (illustrated) weighing the same as roughly 100,000 suns might be stirring up a gas cloud near the center of the Milky Way.

Tomoharu Oka/Keio Univ.

By Christopher Crockett

- More than 2 years ago

The supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy might have a middleweight neighbor, a new study suggests.