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Did We Just Find a Black Hole in a Tiny Star Cluster #STEM

✨Tiny Star Cluster Surprise✨Imagine finding a massive black hole in a star cluster so small you'd think it couldn't hold such a beast. Well, thanks to the James Webb Telescope, that's exactly what scientists just discovered, possibly reshaping our understanding of how these cosmic phenomena form. ⠀ 📚 Based on “A Supermassive Black Hole in a Diminutive Ultra-compact Dwarf Galaxy Discovered with JWST/NIRSpec+IFU” by Matthew A. Taylor, Behzad Tahmasebzadeh, Solveig Thompson, Eugene Vasiliev, Monica Valluri, Michael J. Drinkwater, Patrick Cote, Laura Ferrarese, Joel Roediger, Holger Baumgardt, Misty C. Bentz, Kristen Dage, Eric W. Peng, Drew Lapeer, Chengze Liu, Zach Sumners, Kaixiang Wang, Vivienne Baldassare, John P. Blakeslee, Youkyung Ko, Tyrone E. Woods, available on arXiv (https://arxiv.org/abs/2503.00113), used under CC BY 4.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). ⠀ 📌 #Science,  #Astronomy, #BlackHoles #Science #ScienceNews

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