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    Astronomers may have detected a ‘Dark’ Free-Floating Black Hole

    June 13, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    Hubble Space Telescope image of a distant star that was brightened and distorted by an invisible but very compact and heavy object between it and Earth. The compact object — estimated by UC Berkeley astronomers to be between 1.6 and 4.4 times the mass of our sun — could be a free-floating black hole, one of perhaps 200 million in the Milky Way galaxy. (Image courtesy of STScI/NASA/ESA)

    If, as astronomers believe, the deaths of large stars leave behind black holes, there should be hundreds of millions of them scattered throughout the Milky Way galaxy. The problem is, isolated black holes are invisible.

    Now, a team led by University of California, Berkeley, astronomers has for the first time discovered what may be a free-floating black hole by observing the brightening of a more d...

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    First ever Free-Floating Black Hole found Roaming through Interstellar Space

    February 9, 2022, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    HST image in the F814W (I-band) filter of an 800 ×800 region centered on MOA-11-191/OGLE-11-0462, obtained at our final epoch in 2017 August. North is at the top, east on the left. Encircled in green is the source star, now returned to baseline luminosity. The site is resolved into the source, a much brighter neighboring star 0.004 to the WNW, and several nearby fainter stars. The inner cyan circle has a diameter of 100, corresponding to the typical best seeing in ground-based microlensing survey images; the outer cyan circle’s diameter is 200, which is not unusual seeing. The source, bright neighbor, and several fainter stars are generally blended in ground-based frames, and the blending increases with seeing. Credit: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2201.13296.pdf

    An international team of re...

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