'Black Hole Police' Spot Extragalactic Black Hole | European Southern Observatory

'Black Hole Police' Spot Extragalactic Black Hole | European Southern Observatory

ESOcast 255 Light: The "black hole police", a team of astronomers known for debunking black hole discoveries, reported finding a "needle in a haystack". After searching nearly 1,000 stars outside our galaxy, they found that one of them has a stellar-mass black hole as a companion. This short video summarizes the discovery.

Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO)

Duration: 1 minute, 40 seconds

Release Date: July 18, 2022

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