What can seven fast-moving stars within a globular cluster indicate to astronomers?
Well, if you're looking for black holes, quite a bit. In fact, these stars, and the evidence they provide of the existence of a black hole, are a really big deal.
Anil Seth, professor of physics and astronomy at the University of Utah and co-principal investigator, talks about this once-in-a-career discovery of the most solid evidence ever for an intermediate-mass black hole.
Read the full article in Nature.
Click here for tickets to Prof. Seth's presentation at Clarke Planetarium.
