A middleweight black hole has been spotted for the first time in our galaxy

The find could help link smaller black holes and the behemoths at galaxies’ centers

Thousands of multicolored points of light fill an image of a star cluster

The star cluster Omega Centauri, seen here in an image from the Hubble Space Telescope, may hide a rare midweight black hole in its core (marked with a white box).

Hubble/ESA, NASA, M. Häberle/MPIA

For the first time, astronomers have spotted a middleweight black hole in the nearby universe.