As a result of 6 years of research, scientists came across a small and inactive black hole. The black hole is located in the double star system VFTS 243 in our neighboring galaxy.
While space exploration continues at full speed, scientists announced a new discovery today. The international team of experts is the neighboring galaxy of our own galaxy, the Milky Way. in the Large Magellanic Cloud shared that they discovered a small and inactive black hole.
Comparing the discovery to “finding a needle in a haystack”, scientists said their discovery was made by the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope. In his observations 6 years ago performed. Moreover, the team that made the discovery was a team that is mostly famous for disproving different black hole discoveries.
The location of the black hole shows why the discovery is called ‘finding a needle in a haystack’:
Although scientists continue to work on inactive black holes, they have not found any concrete evidence to date. These black holes are usually high level X-ray they do not emit radiation. For this reason, these black holes are considered to be ‘asleep’. Discovery of inactive black holes is also very difficult because they are inactive. Because these black holes do not affect their surroundings as much as other black holes.
While the newly discovered black hole doesn’t sound scary as it is inactive, it still has the mass of our Sun. at least nine times in possession. Also, black hole It has 25 times the mass of our sun It orbits a hot, blue star.
The animation of the black hole and the star it orbits was created as follows:
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