{"id":264038,"date":"2025-08-09T02:11:32","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:11:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?guid=040f8156b1b77472a686360cf95375a2"},"modified":"2025-08-09T02:11:32","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T16:11:32","slug":"rare-type-of-black-hole-snacks-on-star","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vibewire.com.au\/?p=264038","title":{"rendered":"Rare Type of Black Hole Snacks on Star"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Science: NASA, ESA, CXC, Yi-Chi Chang (National Tsing Hua University); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>\u00a0and NASA\u2019s\u00a0Chandra X-ray Observatory<\/a>\u00a0teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy. These rare black holes are called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs) and weigh between a few hundred to a few 100,000 times the mass of our Sun.<\/p>\n

Learn more about IMBHs and what studying them can tell us about the universe.<\/a><\/p>\n

Image credit: Science: NASA, ESA, CXC, Yi-Chi Chang (National Tsing Hua University); Image Processing: Joseph DePasquale (STScI)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NASA\u2019s\u00a0Hubble Space Telescope\u00a0and NASA\u2019s\u00a0Chandra X-ray Observatory\u00a0teamed up to identify a new possible example of a rare class of black holes, identified by X-ray emission (in purple) in this image released on July 24, 2025. Called NGC 6099 HLX-1, this bright X-ray source seems to reside in a compact star cluster in a giant elliptical galaxy. [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-264038","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t