For The First Time, ‘Blackhole Police’ Find a Dormant Hole In Our Galaxy
A new study using observations from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) Very Large Telescope has revealed that a mysterious type of black hole was discovered in a neighboring galaxy.
Because they are not able to interact with their environment, dormant stellar-mass dark holes (which form when huge stars die) can be difficult to detect. Because they don’t emit X-ray radiation, unlike other black holes, the dormant ones are not able to emit high levels.
Although this type of black hole is thought to be a fairly common cosmic phenomenon according to the European and US researchers who participated in the study.
The black hole recently detected, VFTS 243 is at least ninety times larger than our sun. It orbits a hot blue star weighing 25x the sun’s weight, making it part of a binary system.
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