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Synopsis: Domenii: Space: Space generale: Celestial body: Black hole: Central black hole:

a team of astronomers discovered that Markarian 231 is powered by two central black holes furiously whirling about each other.

This provides observational evidence that the disk has a big donut hole encircling the central black hole.

The central black hole is estimated to be 150 million times the mass of our sun, and the companion weighs in at 4 million solar masses.

What the team found led them to examine additional observations of Sagittarius A-Star (A*)the source that marks the Milky way's central black hole.

The team has plans to better determine the masses of the central black holes. Knowing these objects'true hefts will help reveal their history,

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