According to astronomers, a celestial body 33 times the mass of the Sun was formed as a result of the explosion of a star.
Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole created by the explosion of a star just 2,000 light-years from Earth. The Guardian reported this.
It is now the largest black hole in the Milky Way, discovered by researchers while observing a star in the constellation Aquila that was impacted by the force of the cosmic object. The motion indicated that the star had been absorbed by a black hole 33 times more massive than the Sun.
“A complete surprise. This is the largest stellar black hole in our galaxy and the second closest discovered. This is a once-in-a-lifetime discovery,” said Dr Pasquale Panuzzo, an astronomer and member of the Gaia mission at the Paris Observatory .
Subsequent observations from the European Southern Observatory telescope in Chile’s Atacama Desert confirmed the black hole’s mass and the star’s orbit around it every 11.6 years.
Measurements of the companion star found no evidence that it was contaminated by material ejected from the exploding star that created the black hole. This indicates that the black hole formed long before it captured the companion star in its strong gravitational field.
Stellar black holes form when massive stars collapse at the end of their lives. There are dozens of them found in the Milky Way, most of them weighing about 10 times the mass of the Sun. The Milky Way’s most spectacular black hole, Sagittarius A, has a combined mass of several million Suns. It hides in the very heart of the galaxy and was formed not from the explosion of a star, but as a result of the collapse of large clouds of dust and gas.
100-meter-long stellar black holes may exist in the Milky Way, but despite their enormous mass and the powerful forces they generate, they can be very difficult to detect.
A major report on this black hole should be released in 2025. However, due to the importance of the discovery, researchers published data about it earlier than planned.
It was previously reported that astronomers have found the largest black hole, daily absorbing an amount of gas and dust equal to the mass of the Sun.
Astronomers have discovered a super-fast wind from a black hole in the Markarian 817 galaxy
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