Astronomers Think They’ve Found The Second-Largest Black Hole In The Milky Way

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An artist's impression of the new intermediate-mass black hole. Tomoharu Oka/Keio University

There are thought to be three types of black holes out there, each a different sized, star-swallowing, spacetime-warping colossus. A new study published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters claims to have discovered a fourth intermediary type hiding within our very own galaxy.