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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Want to learn more about Spiral Graph: Cluster Buster? Visit the project page here: https://www.zooniverse.org/projects/astro-lab-ncmns/spiral-graph-cluster-buster
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