This group of stars is located at a distance of about 26 thousand light years from Earth in the constellation Ophiuchus.
The Hubble Space Telescope has captured a stunning image of a distant cluster of stars that will help scientists better understand how such clusters evolve, and perhaps even see the intangible black holes at their heart. Space reported it.
Globular clusters like this one, known as NGC 6325, can contain tens of thousands to millions of stars and are found in all kinds of galaxies, experts say. For example, the Milky Way itself is home to about 180 known globular clusters.
It is believed that all the stars in a globular cluster formed simultaneously from the same cloud of gas and dust, and their study can teach astrophysicists a lot about how stars form and evolve. star
“Astronomers are looking for something a little different in NGC 6325, which is harder to catch than its thick star: a compact cosmic titan called an intermediate mass black hole. Finding samples of this class is very important because astronomers still don’t know how they were born.” , the message said.
So studies of NGC 6325 and other globular clusters have shown that their distribution of stars is different from what astronomers expected. Because intermediate black holes have a large gravitational influence that can influence the motion of the stars around them, a detailed study of these clusters may indicate their presence.
If an intermediate black hole is indeed hidden in NGC 6325 at the center of a globular cluster, then images like those taken by Hubble may finally reveal it, giving astronomers a better idea of how globular clusters and these medium-sized monsters grow. .
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