Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC 6099

Jul 27, 2025 - 07:45
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Intermediate-Mass Black Hole Caught Eating Star in NGC 6099
X-ray and infrared images of NGC 6099 HLX-1. Image credit: NASA / CXC / Inst. of Astronomy, Taiwan / Y-C Chang / ESA / STScI / HST / J. DePasquale.

The newly-discovered intermediate-mass black hole, named NGC 6099 HLX-1, resides in a compact star cluster on the outskirts of the elliptical galaxy NGC 6099, about 40,000 light-years from the galaxy’s center.

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