A newly discovered black hole has been hiding in a cluster containing thousands of stars in our neighbouring Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy.
Astronomers found it by using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope in Chile and observing how the black hole's gravity influenced the motion of a nearby star, which is about five times the mass of our sun.
"The result shown here represents just one of the wanted criminals, but when you have found one, you are well on your way to discovering many others, in different clusters," Saracino said. "The vast majority can only be unveiled dynamically," said Stefan Dreizler, study coauthor and professor at the University of Göttingen in Germany, in a statement.
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