Astrophysicists hunt for second-closest supermassiveblackhole AAS_Office
that carry a fraction of their mass to the environment. The space around Leo I* seems to contain enough of these ancient stars to make it observable."
"Observing Leo I* could be groundbreaking," says Avi Loeb, the co-author of the study."It would be the second-closest supermassive black hole after the one at the center of our galaxy, with a very similar mass but hosted by a galaxy that is a thousand times less massive than the Milky Way.
"In the case of Leo I," Loeb continues,"we would expect a much smaller black hole. Instead, Leo I appears to contain a black hole a few million times the mass of the Sun, similar to that hosted by the Milky Way. This is exciting because science usually advances the most when the unexpected happens."The team has obtained telescope time on the
-borne Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Very Large Array radio telescope in New Mexico and is currently analyzing the new data. Pacucci says,"Leo I* is playing hide-and-seek, but it emits too much radiation to remain undetected for long."Accretion from Winds of RGB Stars May Reveal the Supermassive Black Hole in Leo I,
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