UP TO 25 000 black holes are hiding in the heart of our Galaxy, claim two
astronomers in the US. “The black holes are buzzing like flies around the
centre,” says Jordi Miralda Escudé of Ohio State University.
Although only half a dozen black hole candidates are known to exist in the
Milky Way, some astronomers think the Galaxy is swarming with black holes
created by exploding stars. Miralda and his Ohio State colleague Andrew Gould
say that these holes will cluster in the centre of the Galaxy because they tend
to transfer some of their orbital energy to smaller…
