Wednesday, January 27, 2010

'Farthest' Star-Mass Black Hole

An artist's impression of the black hole pulling gas off its companion

From The BBC:


Astronomers have spied a star-sized black hole much further away than any such object previously known.


It has a mass 20 times that of our Sun and is sited six million light-years away in the galaxy NGC 300.

The discovery was made using the Very Large Telescope (VLT) facility on Mount Paranal in Chile.

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