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Article: DARK SPACE OBJECT PERPLEXES SCIENTISTS.(Living)
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- Albany Times Union (Albany, NY)
- Article date:
- April 9, 1991
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Byline: Malcolm W. Browne The New York Times
Astronomers reported Monday that they had discovered a dark, mysterious and almost inconceivably massive object lurking within a shell of luminous gas that is circulating around two colliding galaxies at speeds of almost 2 million miles an hour.
If the object is a black hole, it is 10 to 100 times as massive as any black hole previously known or even believed to be possible.
The object's enormous mass puts it in a class astronomers have never encountered before, according to the astronomers who found it.
Another possibility, the discoverers say, is that the object is adormant quasar of the ...