Black Hole Lurks in Nearby Galaxy.

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  • Author(s): STUART, COLIN (AUTHOR)
  • Source:
    Sky & Telescope. Nov2022, Vol. 144 Issue 5, p9-9. 1/2p. 1 Color Photograph.
  • Additional Information
    • Subject Terms:
      BLACK holes; LARGE magellanic cloud; MILKY Way; VERY large telescopes; STELLAR mass
    • Abstract:
      ASTRONOMERS HAVE FOUND a dormant stellar-mass black hole around a massive blue star in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. A team led by Tomer Shenar (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands) trawled through almost 1,000 stars in the LMC's Tarantula Nebula in search of dormant black holes. [Extracted from the article]
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