The large Magellanic cloud can have its own supermassive black hole
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A supermassive black hole in the Large magellanic cloud (LMC) can be the source of nine stars zooming in our galaxy – a surprising index that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.
“This is the first convincing proof of a supermassive black hole in a galaxy (a dwarf),” said Jiwon Jesse Han At the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts. He believes that the mass of the black hole inside the LMC would be about 600,000 times of the sun. As a comparison, …
