A rendering by artist Yu Jingchuan shows the accretion of gas onto a stellar black hole from its blue companion star, through a truncated accretion disk.
"Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our Galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution," Professor Jifeng Liu, who led the team at the Chinese Academy of Sciences that made the discovery, said in a statement.
The newly discovered black hole, named LB-1, is located 15,000 light-years from Earth, according to a press release from the Chinese Academy of Sciences. But even with the new technology, the academy said it is still"like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack."
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