A distorted cosmic dust cloud, nicknamed "the Tadpole," points to the possible presence of a rare type of black hole at the center of our galaxy. Astronomers discovered the image of the oddly shaped cloud of gas, some 27,000 light years from Earth via the James Clerk Maxwell Telescope in Hawaii. Their initial analysis could not find signs of any visible object gigantic enough to deform the cloud in this manner.
They then began to suspect a so-called "intermediate"-sized black hole with immense gravity (around the size of 100,000 solar masses) was near the dust cloud and warping its shape. Intermediate black holes have been called the "missing link" in black hole theory as they fit in between previously discovered smaller and larger black holes, but none as of yet have been definitively confirmed to exist in the Milky Way. More at Live Science.