The black hole would be obscured by a cloud of gas that rotates 200 light years from the galactic center.
In this area there is an already known supermassive black hole called Sagittarius A *.
This is reported by Japanese astronomers in the journal Astrophysical Journal Letters .
Gas molecules
The scientists arrived at their findings based on images of the gas cloud in the galactic center, created with the help of two Japanese telescopes. The images show that the speeds of gas molecules in the cloud vary very considerably.
This indicates that the gas is driven by a large object that is obscured by the cloud, reports news Science Now .
Medium weight
The computer simulations show that the behavior of the gas cloud can best be explained by the presence of a black hole with a mass 100,000 times greater than that of the sun. It would be an ‘intermediate’ black hole. The nearby black hole Sagittarius A has a much larger mass: 4 million solar masses
According to Japanese scientists, it is theoretically possible that the two black holes in the galactic center will ever merge into one big black hole <.. /> p>
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