New Black Hole Discovered Outside the Milky Way
Recently, astronomers, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way galaxy.
- The team used data collected over two years with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) mounted at ESO's VLT, located in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
- Data from the University of Warsaw's Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment and from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope enabled them to measure the mass of the black hole and confirm their findings.
Key Highlights
- Location: The newly found black hole was spotted lurking in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 ....
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