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English: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected a stellar-mass black hole much further away than any other previously known. With a mass about twenty times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found. The newly announced black hole lies in a spiral galaxy called NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.
This image obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the VLT is centred on the position of the black hole. The image covers a field of view of about 2x2 arcminutes, or about 4000 light-years at the distance of NGC 300. The image is based on data obtained through a wide B filter and two narrow-band filters centred on 500 nm and H-alpha. |
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Author | ESO/P. Crowther | ||
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Credit/Provider | ESO/P. Crowther |
Source | European Southern Observatory |
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Date and time of data generation | 12:00, 27 January 2010 |
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Keywords | NGC 300 X-1 |
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