{"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":"<div id=\"\" class=\"hds-media hds-module wp-block-image\">\n<div class=\"margin-left-auto margin-right-auto nasa-block-align-inline\">\n<div class=\"hds-media-wrapper margin-left-auto margin-right-auto\">\n<figure class=\"hds-media-inner hds-cover-wrapper hds-media-ratio-none \"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2048\" height=\"1638\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?w=2048\" class=\"attachment-2048x2048 size-2048x2048\" alt=\"Two elliptical galaxies at upper right and lower left appear as fuzzy white ovals. At bottom center is a fuzzy purple blob. The main image also has two bright stars with prominent diffraction spikes. The background of space is black and is speckled with tiny white dots.\u2063\" style=\"transform: scale(1); transform-origin: 50% 50%; object-position: 50% 50%; object-fit: cover;\" block_context=\"nasa-block\" loading=\"eager\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png 2278w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=300,240 300w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=768,614 768w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=1024,819 1024w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=1536,1229 1536w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=2048,1638 2048w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=400,320 400w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=600,480 600w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=900,720 900w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=1200,960 1200w, https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/unannotated-full-res-for-display.png?resize=2000,1600 2000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2048px) 100vw, 2048px\" \/><\/a><\/figure><figcaption class=\"hds-caption padding-y-2\">\n<div class=\"hds-credits\">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<p>NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/hubble\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Hubble Space Telescope<\/a>\u00a0and NASA\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/mission\/chandra\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Chandra 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<p><a href=\"https:\/\/science.nasa.gov\/missions\/hubble\/nasas-hubble-chandra-spot-rare-type-of-black-hole-eating-a-star\/\" rel=\"noopener\">Learn more about IMBHs and what studying them can tell us about the universe.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>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":"<p>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. 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