How volunteers tracing galaxies might help researchers find a rare type of black hole @ncnaturalsciences
How volunteers tracing galaxies might help researchers find a rare type of black hole  @ncnaturalsciences
Uploaded July 2026 | Updated September 2026, 1 week ago
Supermassive black holes are millions to billions of times the mass of our sun and are found at the core of galaxies like The Milky Way, but we don’t know how they form. Astrophysicist Patrick Treuthardt, PhD, at the North Carolina Museum of Natural Sciences, and his team are using images of 20,000 galaxies and the power of volunteers to try to solve that mystery and hunt for the missing link in black hole evolution: intermediate-mass black holes.

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How volunteers tracing galaxies might help researchers find a rare type of black hole

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