10 Galactic Mysteries That STILL Have Scientists Scratching Their Heads

2. Tiny Galaxy With Huge Black Hole

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(pic by NASA)

They didn’t expect to find a black hole this size in a galaxy so small:

Tiny M60-UCD1 might change our understanding of black holes and dwarf galaxies. It’s only 300 light-years wide, which is 0.2 percent of the size of the Milky Way. But don’t laugh yet because it’s packing a black hole with a mass of 21 million Suns. Compare that to the much larger Milky Way’s black hole, which has a mass of four million Suns.

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