'Needle in a haystack' black hole discovered in neighboring galaxy

The dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is the first to be confirmed outside of the Milky Way.

Shenar and his colleagues discovered a stellar-mass black hole that contains about nine times the mass of the sun and is located in the Tarantula Nebula, a star-forming region of a galaxy neighboring ours, the. The black hole orbits a huge blue star with a mass equivalent to 25 suns; the duo make up a binary system that has been named VFTS 243.

"The star that formed the black hole in VFTS 243 appears to have collapsed entirely, with no sign of a previous explosion," Shenar said."Evidence for this 'direct-collapse' scenario has been emerging recently, but our study arguably provides one of the most direct indications. This has enormous implications for the origin of black-hole mergers in the cosmos."

/Wong et al., ESO/M.-R. Cioni/VISTA Magellanic Cloud survey. Acknowledgment: Cambridge Astronomical Survey Unit)The discovery of such a black hole by this particular team of scientists may come as something of a surprise to the astronomy community.

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