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it's estimated that our galaxy is

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littered with a hundred million small

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black holes created from exploded Stars

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while the universe at large is flooded

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with supermassive black holes weighing

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millions or billions of times our Sun's

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mass and found in the centers of

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galaxies a long-sought missing link

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between the two is an intermediate Mass

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black hole weighing in at hundreds to

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thousands of solar masses

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astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space

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Telescope have possibly detected one of

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these elusive intermediate Mass black

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holes in the core of the globular star

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cluster Messier 4 located 6 000 light

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years away from Earth they calculated

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the suspected black holes mass by

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studying the motion of stars caught in

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its gravitational field using 12 and a

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half years worth of Messier 4

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observations from Hubble the researchers

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estimate that the black hole could be as

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much as 800 times the mass of our sun

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thanks to Hubble's High Precision

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observations over a long period of time

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scientists can search the skies to help

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us uncover the mysteries of this Missing