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Not only is a newly found black huge, it also is the most far-away stellar-mass black hole ever detected.
Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record | Universe Today 2010
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The nature of ULXs is a mystery, but one suggestion is that some ULXs are black holes with masses between about a hundred and several thousand times that of the Sun, a range intermediate between stellar-mass black holes and supermassive black holes located in the nuclei of galaxies.
Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today 2010
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So far, around 20 stellar-mass black holes have been found.
Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record | Universe Today 2010
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This image composite shows the spectacular spiral galaxy NGC 300 as seen in an image from the Digitized Sky Survey 2 DSS2, as well as the position of the stellar-mass black hole in the galaxy in an image obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the VLT.
Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record | Universe Today 2010
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This makes it the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found.
Extra-Galactic Whopper Black Hole Breaks Distance Record | Universe Today 2010
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The rate of this flickering was about 100 times slower than that seen from stellar-mass black holes.
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This led to my earlier question about scaling effects with regards to stellar-mass black holes.
The Shrinking Doughnut Around a Black Hole | Universe Today 2009
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This is typical for stellar-mass black holes in our galaxy.
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Some stellar-mass black holes launch powerful jets of particles and radiation, like seen in quasars, and are called “micro-quasars”.
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Self-regulation is a common topic when discussing supermassive black holes, but this is the first clear evidence for it in stellar-mass black holes.
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