The black hole in NGC 1850 was captured on the European Observatory’s Very Large Telescope or VLT. It is hidden in a cluster of stars that influence each other around it.
Tech Explorist, Sara Saracino, from the Astrophysics Research Institute of Liverpool John Moores University, UK, launched it. So that the results of this study were successfully published in the journal.
Dalam Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society bertajuk A black hole detected in the young massive LMC cluster NGC 1850. Tepatnya pada 11 November 2021 ini.
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Discovery of Black Hole at NGC 1850
Being the first discovery with a detection mode, finally capturing a black hole that is located outside the Milky Way galaxy. This object is quite mysterious in its evolution and formation.
Even this quite hidden location has a cluster of thousands of stars. It is 160,000 light years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud.
This detection is important because of the understanding associated with the surrounding star clusters. It is seen that there is a distortion that affects the surrounding stars to move around the black hole.
The researchers revealed that this dynamic method is quite profitable. The reason is, they can get a greater chance of finding many other black holes to solve previous facts.
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Black Hole Characteristics in NGC 1850
Once successfully detected, this black hole has a size of up to 11 times larger than the Sun. Of course this is quite surprising because of its giant size.
Not only that, if we look at the mass of the star by taking X-rays and emitting it, as well as its gravitational waves when it is colliding with another or even with a neutron star, they are subtly detected and form a system.
As a result of this first discovery we get a new history of signs. In fact there is a group of young stars approximately 100 million years old. Visible in the blink of an eye on a sophisticated astronomical scale.
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Data From MUSE (Multi Spectroscopic Explorer) and More
The black hole in NGC 1850 comes from two years of data analysis using MUSE. It is installed on ESO’s VLT located in Chile’s Atacama Desert.
So that it can increase knowledge about the origin of the source of gravitational waves on Earth. From this MUSE data, we have a better understanding of crowded areas in star clusters and analysis of the surrounding light.
Therefore, the information of thousands of stars in the range of the shot, helped the research team in observing the strange star and its movement to reveal the location of the black hole.
Additionally, from the University of Warsaw’s University of Warsaw Optical Gravity Lens Experiment and the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope. The data from the tool helps the measurement in determining its mass.
These tools will allow the discovery of black holes in globular clusters that are farther away. This black hole in NGC 1850 paved the way for other ongoing discoveries. (R10/HR-Online)
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