The process has also been proposed as the origin of some intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [the atomic uni-verse] Reference

Observations of this object certainly make a strong case for intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes | Universe Today] Reference

The boundary limit between super - and intermediate-mass black holes is a matter of convention.    From Wordnik.com.  [the atomic uni-verse] Reference

Astronomers have suspected that globular clusters could contain intermediate-mass black holes, but conclusive evidence for this has been elusive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today] Reference

Evidence from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory and the Magellan telescopes suggest a star has been torn apart by an intermediate-mass black hole in a globular cluster.    From Wordnik.com.  [Stellar Destruction Could Be from Intermediate Black Hole | Universe Today] Reference

"Astronomers have been studying NGC 5408 X-1 for a long time because it is one of the best candidates for an intermediate-mass black hole," adds Philip Kaaret at the University of Iowa, who has studied the object at radio wavelengths but is unaffiliated with either study.    From Wordnik.com.  [Finding the Mama Bear of Black Holes | Universe Today] Reference

Astronomers think they have found an intermediate-mass black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

An intermediate-mass black hole of over 500 solar masses in the galaxy ESO 243-49.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

There are four types of black hole: micro, stellar, intermediate-mass and supermassive.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

Astronomers have found the best evidence yet of an elusive intermediate-mass black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [New Scientist - Online News] Reference

"Most of us have been concentrating on intermediate-mass WIMPS for decades," Collar said.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

In the UC Berkeley survey, about 6.5 percent of stars held intermediate-mass planets, with.    From Wordnik.com.  [Yahoo! News: Business - Opinion] Reference

Spitzer images to identify regions within the inner Milky Way that are forming intermediate-mass stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

"This result is one of the strongest pieces of evidence to date for the existence of an intermediate-mass black hole," said Feng.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

The intermediate-mass stellar embryos, each a couple of times as massive as the sun, are located in the redder regions of the image.    From Wordnik.com.  [SPACE.com] Reference

HLX-1, located in the outskirts of the spiral galaxy ESO 243-49, is the strongest candidate to-date for intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

Image 2: An intermediate-mass black hole (shown here above and to the left of the galactic bulge) was discovered in the 2XMM catalogue.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

The star clusters then sink to the center of the galaxy, where the intermediate-mass black holes merge to form a supermassive black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

This has important implications for how they form and evolve, and suggest the possible presence of central intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Similar behavior has been seen from stellar-mass black holes in our Galaxy, but this is the first likely detection in a candidate intermediate-mass black hole.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

Or, intermediate-mass black holes could be leftovers from the very earliest stars in the universe, which scientists think were much larger than today's versions.    From Wordnik.com.  [Latest Articles] Reference

Numerical simulations suggest that clusters with weak cusps may harbor intermediate-mass black holes and we have one confirmation of this connection with omega Centauri.    From Wordnik.com.  [SpaceRef Top Stories] Reference

Weighing in at a hefty 500 solar masses, HLX-1 shows all the signs of being an intermediate-mass black hole, the missing link between stellar-mass and supermassive black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference

The first is through colliding with other black holes, which sends ripples called gravitational waves through the space-time fabric - this is how intermediate-mass black holes are formed.    From Wordnik.com.  [Museum Blogs] Reference

Astronomers have used ESO's Very Large Telescope Interferometer to conduct the first high resolution survey that combines spectroscopy and interferometry on intermediate-mass infant stars.    From Wordnik.com.  [innovations-report] Reference

"One theory is supermassive black holes may be formed by the merger of a number of intermediate-mass black holes," said lead author Sean Farrell, an astrophysicist at Britain's University of Leicester.    From Wordnik.com.  [Space News From SpaceDaily.Com] Reference

"ULXs are good candidates for intermediate-mass black holes, and the one in galaxy NGC 5408 is especially interesting," said Richard Mushotzky, an astrophysicist at the University of Maryland, College Park.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

The few intermediate-mass black hole candidates that have been discovered so far could be accounted for by other theories, but this one stood out as it was brighter than all the previous candidates by a factor of almost 10.    From Wordnik.com.  [Scientific Blogging] Reference

One possible mechanism for the formation of supermassive black holes involves a chain reaction of collisions of stars in compact star clusters that results in the buildup of extremely massive stars, which then collapse to form intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [PhysOrg.com - latest science and technology news stories] Reference

"Astronomers have been studying NGC 5408 X-1 for a long time because it is one of the best candidates for an intermediate-mass black hole," said Philip Kaaret at the University of Iowa, who has studied the object at radio wavelengths but is unaffiliated with either study.    From Wordnik.com. Reference

While it is accepted that stellar-mass black holes are the remnants of massive stars, the formation process for supermassive black holes is still unclear, although a number of explanations have been proposed, amongst them one scenario that involves mergers of intermediate-mass black holes.    From Wordnik.com.  [RedOrbit News - Technology] Reference