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NASA scientists baffled that supermassive black hole appears to be 'missing'

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NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and Hubble Space Telescope, they can find no sign of it.The object at Abell 226’s centre should weigh at least 3 billion and as much as 100 billion times the mass of the Sun – but it’s just not there.The fact that there is a dense concentration of stars near the centre of the cluster seems to rule out the possibility that there is a black hole in Abell 2261 that is somehow invisible..A team led by Kayhan Gultekin from the University of Michigan in Ann Arbor have theorised that Abell 2261 was formed by the collision of two smaller galaxies and after their central black holes collided and merged the new supermassive black hole was somehow ejected into deep space.Even that’s an unproven theory – “it is not.

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