Journey to Star Cluster NGC 1850 in Dorado | ESO
Sit back, relax and enjoy this journey to NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160,000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbor.
Among many stars, this cluster is home to a black hole eleven times as massive as the Sun and to the five-solar-mass star orbiting it. By looking at the star’s orbit, a team of astronomers were able to infer the presence of the black hole, making it the first small black hole outside of our galaxy to be found this way. For this discovery, the team used the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope in Chile.
Video Credit: European Southern Observatory (ESO), N. Risinger, Digital Sky Survey (DSS), NASA/ESA/M. Romaniello
Duration: 50 seconds
Release Date: Nov. 11, 2021
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