Using a revolutionary dark energy camera, astronomers have discovered the largest haul of "missing link" intermediate-mass black holes ever seen, but there should have been more.

That’s enough to start studying these black holes as a group, rather than in isolation, says astronomer Ragadeepika Pucha of the University of Utah in Salt Lake City.

Led by researcher Ragadeepika Pucha from the University of Utah, a team of scientists have identified thousands of new dwarf galaxies hosting black holes at their center.

How black holes grow to monstrous scales is one of astronomy's prevailing enigmas. A new record-breaking dataset, which reveals 300 potential 'missing link black holes', could help to unravel it.

"All this data is just there, and it's just waiting to be analyzed," Ragadeepika Pucha, a graduate student in astronomy at the University of Arizona working on DESI, said in a press release.

Dr Ragadeepika Pucha, a postdoctoral researcher at the University of Utah, has led a groundbreaking study identifying one of the largest known intermediate-mass black holes within a highly active ...

Bengaluru: To spot a black hole is tough and to find them in smaller galaxies is even more difficult. But that did not stop Dr Ragadeepika Pucha, a postdoctoral researcher of Indian origin at the ...