An oversized, supermassive black hole has been discovered at the centre of a densely packed conglomeration of stars. The finding suggests that the system is the stripped nucleus of a once-larger galaxy. See Letter p.398
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X-ray: NASA/CXC/MSU/J. Strader et al.; Optical: NASA/STSCI
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Reines, A. Giant black hole in a stripped galaxy. Nature 513, 322–323 (2014). https://doi.org/10.1038/513322a
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