NASA Hubble Finds First Free-Floating Black Hole - Forbes

Hubble detects a stellar mass black hole free-floating through the galaxy. Because this solo black hole doesn’t emit light, two separate teams used Hubble data to measure the mass of this black hole using a technique known as gravitational microlensing.

This is an illustration of a close-up look at a black hole drifting through our Milky Way galaxy. ... [+] The black hole distorts the space around it, which warps images of background stars lined up … [+4136 chars]

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