A small black hole that's just hanging around, quietly minding its own business, has been detected outside the Milky Way galaxy.
This, the team says, marks the first time that we've been able to conclusively detect and identify an inactive black hole that isn't within the confines of our own galaxy., evidence of its true identity left some wiggle room for doubt. This newer finding, according to the authors, is a solid bet.
The team behind the report is clearly thrilled, not least because of their skeptical reputation for casting doubt on previous dormant black hole findings. Inactive, or quiescent, black holes are more or less invisible. But that pesky gravity can give it away… if you know how to look. If a stellar-mass black hole is in a binary system with another star, the orbital motion of the companion circling what appears to be empty spaceNot all dark masses are black holes, though. Other astronomers have been fooled before, the most famous example being a black hole touted as the.
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