Hunting For "Wnadering" Black Holes In Dwarf Galaxies

Hunting For "Wnadering" Black Holes In Dwarf Galaxies
By Andy Tomaswick (https://ift.tt/1xLY9d2)

Tracking down black holes at the center of dwarf galaxies has proven difficult. In part that is because they have a tendency to “wander” and are not located at the galaxy’s center. There are plenty of galaxies that might contain such a black hole, but so far we’ve had insufficient data to confirm their existence. A new paper from Megan Sturm of Montana State University and her colleagues analyzed additional data from Chandra and Hubble on a set of 12 potential Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) galaxy candidates. They were only able to confirm three, which highlights the difficulty in isolating these massive wanderers.

November 19, 2025 at 06:43PM
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