Black Hole Hunters Set New Distance Record
27 Jan 2010, 11:00 UTC
ESO/L. Calçada
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope have detected, in another galaxy, a stellar-mass black hole much farther away than any other previously known. With a mass above fifteen times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found. It is entwined with a star that will soon become a black hole itself.
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