Super-Powered, Compact Black Hole MQ1 Is First Of Its Kind To Be Discovered

An entirely new type of black hole — one that’s ‘super-powered’, and highly compact — was recently discovered by an international team of astronomers. This first of its kind black hole has been dubbed MQ1 by those involved.

The researchers — who had been studying the galaxy known as M83 — came across the black hole quite by chance, but it’s a significant finding. Previously researchers had discovered other compact objects roughly as powerful as MQ1, but hadn’t been able to determine the nature or size of the black hole within them. That’s now changed.

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