Galaxies are found to be crouching within itself, super-massive black holes, which are of the mass similar to millions of stars!
Yes, stellar mass black holes can contain the mass of a few suns! But, what was still leaving the astronomers perplexed is — why haven’t they been still able to turn up intermediate mass black holes that contain merely hundreds or thousands of times our Sun’s mass.
It is only recently, astronomers have turned up a globular cluster in the Andromdeda Galaxy (M31) using the NSF’s Very Large Array (VLA) radio telescope. The galaxy seems to contain a black hole that possesses 20,000 times the mass of the Sun.
Although the experts predict it to be a black hole, there are chances of its being a cluster of compact objects — like neutron stars and black holes — as well.
But, by the quantity of radio emissions coming from the object, the astronomers find that it fits the curve perfectly between stellar and super-massive black holes.
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