New research is shedding light on what researchers call "lite" intermediate-mass black holes, which are smaller, but still ...

These elusive objects, called intermediate-mass black holes (IMBHs), are thought to weigh between 100 and 100,000 times the mass of the sun. They could be the missing link in understanding how ...

Earth-based detectors like LIGO capture only a split second of the final collision of these "lightweight" intermediate-mass black holes, making it challenging to determine how the universe creates ...

Properties of “Lite” Intermediate-mass Black Hole Candidates in LIGO-Virgo’s Third Observing Run. The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2025; 985 (2): L37 DOI: 10.3847/2041-8213/adc5f8 ...

May 30, 2025 Scientists discover new evidence of intermediate-mass black holes New studies reveal clues about elusive intermediate-mass black holes, bridging the gap between stellar and supermassive ...

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Cala also reported that a study showed that TAPS modulated neural activity in the ventral intermediate (VIM) nucleus of the thalamus. The company called VIM a broadly adopted site for DBS to treat ...

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Intermediate-mass black holes—somewhere between stellar-mass and supermassive—are the rarest type of black hole in the universe. 300 of these elusive black holes were recently observed by NSF ...

The team also discovered around 300 intermediate-mass black holes. The results suggest that scientists have thus far been missing a substantial number of low-mass black holes.

Within the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument’s early data, scientists have uncovered the largest samples ever of intermediate-mass black holes and dwarf galaxies hosting an active black hole ...