A Dormant Black Hole has Been Discovered Just Outside the Milky Way - Universe Today
7/20/2022 12:00:00 AM2 years 9 months ago
by Carolyn Collins Petersen
by Carolyn Collins Petersen
Stellar-mass black hole exist in the universe, but what about a dormant black hole? Astronomers found one, but it's outside the Milky Way!
What happens when a massive star dies? Conventional wisdom (and observational evidence) say that it can collapse to form a “stellar-mass” black hole. Astronomers detect black holes by the X-ray emiss… [+4886 chars]
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