Scientists finally spotted the rarest type of black hole

[Mike Wehner]

• Scientists used gravitational-wave data to detect the merger of two smaller black holes and the formation of a larger one.
• The larger black hole is still smaller than a supermassive black hole, but it's larger than any "standard" black hole.
• This new type of black hole, called an "intermediate-mass black hole" is the first of its kind detected by humans.

Despite only recently being able to capture an image of one, scientists know a lot about black holes. The impossibly dense objects suck up anything that gets too close, and they're the centerpiece of most galaxies, at least according to astronomers.

We also know that there are two varieties of black holes, the standard (smaller) version is thought to be somewhere between 5 and 100 times as massive as our Sun. The other version, the supermassive black hole, is over 1,000 times as massive as our Sun. But what lies in the middle? Scientists may have finally figured it out.

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