] What do you call a group of black holes ... a flock, a ] brace, a swarm? Monitoring a region around the center of ] our Galaxy, astronomers have indeed found evidence for a ] surprisingly large number of variable x-ray sources - ] likely black holes or neutron stars in binary star ] systems - swarming around the Milky Way's own central ] supermassive black hole. APOD: 2005 January 28 - The Swarm |