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'Missing link' black hole found? Not so fast, new study says

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A reanalysis of a dense Milky Way star cluster suggests there is a cluster of stellar-mass black holes in Omega Centauri .

The new findings imply that the black hole is less than 6,000 times the mass of the sun.

The discovery of a "missing link" black hole may be bad news for astronomers.

The research could help astronomers better understand the mechanisms that birth pulsars.

The team's research has been accepted for publication in the journal Astronomy & Astrophysics .

Read: "There is every chance of us finding one [intermediete-mass black hole] soon".