Surprisingly, Researchers Find Black Hole in Solar System Near Milky Way

Writer : Edwin Shri Bimo | Editor : Desy Afrianti

WASHINGTON, KOMPAS.TV – Astronomers have made a surprising scientific discovery in a galaxy adjacent to our Milky Way.

Straits Times Tuesday (19/7/2022) discovered a very rare exotic black hole, calling it a “needle in a haystack” cosmic find.

The black hole is not only classified as inactive but appears to have been born without a stellar explosion that exploded to death.

Researchers Monday, (7/18/2022) said black holes or blackhole this one differs from all other black holes in that it finds “quiet X-rays”, not emitting strong X-ray radiation, usually indicating a black hole devouring nearby matter with a very strong gravitational pull. In addition, the black hole is not seen as born from the explosion of a star called a supernova.

Black holes are extremely dense objects with such strong gravity that even light cannot escape.

This one black hole, with a mass at least nine times that of our sun, was detected in the Tarantula Nebula region of the Large Magellanic Cloud galaxy and is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth.

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One light year is the distance light travels in a year, which is 9.5 trillion km.

A very luminous and hot blue star with a mass about 25 times that of the sun orbits this black hole in a stellar marriage.

This so-called binary system is named VFTS 243. The researchers believe the companion star will eventually also become a black hole and be able to merge with another.

Inactive black holes, considered relatively common, are very difficult to detect because they interact very little with the surrounding environment.

Many previously proposed black hole candidates have been refuted by further studies, including by members of the team that discovered this one.

“The challenge is finding the objects,” said Tomer Shenar, an astronomy researcher at the University of Amsterdam, lead author of the study published in the journal Nature. Astronomy.

“We identified the needle in the haystack.”

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