New Black Hole Discovered Outside the Milky Way

Recently, astronomers, using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope (ESO's VLT), have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way galaxy.

• The team used data collected over two years with the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) mounted at ESO's VLT, located in the Chilean Atacama Desert.
• Data from the University of Warsaw's Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment and from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope enabled them to measure the mass of the black hole and confirm their findings.

Key Highlights

• Location: The newly found black hole was spotted lurking in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 ....