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Thursday, October 28, 2010

Photo: New Type of Cosmic Object to Be Revealed?


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A "rogue" black hole surrounded by stars (top right) is flung from the center of a galaxy merger in an artist's conception.

In theory, hundreds of such black holes, which would represent a whole new class of astronomical object, could exist in the nearby universe—and now scientists think they know how to find them, a July 2009 study says.

Illustration courtesy Space Telescope Science Institute