Galaxy With Supermassive Black Hole Discovered
Scientists have made a surprising discovery: A dwarf galaxy with a supermassive black hole at its core. The finding provides clues about other black holes in the universe. WSJ's Monika Auger reports.
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| This illustration shows the supermassive black hole in the middle of the very dense galaxy M60-UCD1, weighing as much as 21 million suns. |
Astronomers using the Hubble orbital telescope found a "supermassive" black hole lurking at the heart of the only dwarf galaxy ever observed to host one.
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| Supermassive Black Hole (SMBH) is the largest type of black hole, on the order of hundreds of thousands to billions of solar masses |
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