A historical black hole was spotted at the center of a star cluster that is located approximately 16,000 lightyears from our planet. Black Holes are usually scattered all over galaxies.
Despite the large amounts of black holes all over, researchers have only classified them in two categories. The first category is the relatively smaller sized stellar black holes. The next one is super massive black holes, about millions or even billions more solar mass than stellar ones.
According to SpaceReporter, the recently discovered black hole on 47 Tucanae is the very first of its kind that's been spotted. The historical black hole is classified as a mid-sized black hole, with a solar mass of about 2,200.
Some scientists theorized that this could be the early beginnings of a super massive black hole. Regardless, its significant mass did not make it any easier to find in a cluster littered with stars.
Scientists had to observe the surroundings, and there seemed to be something that's been influencing the pulsars in the star cluster. In this case, the alignment of pulsars appeared to be shifting indicating the presence of a mid-sized black hole.
According to Express, black holes pose as much of a threat to Earth as asteroids. There are millions of these tiny, hard-to-detect holes that are capable of sucking in large masses of heavenly bodies.
The fact that black holes can only be spotted when it's already sucking something in, doesn't help either. Just like the historical mid-sized black hole, these enigmas are also capable of growing even larger. On top of all that, we barely know anything about the matter that it is made up of.
However, the fact that new discoveries such as the historical black hole are still being uncovered, there's hope to one day understand these space anomalies. Maybe one day, science can uncover what's behind these mass absorbing holes.
