Strange Object May Be Milky way’s second-largest Black Hole (and a cosmic Missing Link)

8 September, 2017 / Read time: 1 minute

A newly discovered object may be the second-largest black hole in the Milky Way, weighing in at about 100,000 times the mass of the sun.

The dense body would be the first intermediate-mass black hole found in the Milky Way, and it could shed light on how the supermassive black holes lurking at the hearts of perhaps all large galaxies may have formed, the new study's researchers said.