Scientists investigating a large crater in a field in northern Latvia, believed to have been caused by a meteorite, now suspect it was a hoax.

The Latvian media reported on the fall of the meteorite near the city Mazsalaca Valmiera District. In the area of the fall of the meteorite crater width 20 and depth of 10 meters.

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Planetary scientists have found the first solid evidence for a moderate-size black hole in a distant galaxy, backing up the idea that smaller black holes merge into huge ones.

A black hole is an object with such a powerful gravitational field that it absorbs all the light that passes near it and reflects nothing.

Until now, identified black holes have been either super-massive (several million to several billion times the mass of the Sun) in the centre of galaxies, or about the size of a typical star (between three and 20 Solar masses).

Now, an international team has discovered the black hole HLX-1, 290 million light years from Earth, which it is more than 500 times the mass of the Sun, using the European Space Agency’s telescope.

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