Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy so big they previously thought it was impossible that it could exist. The enormous discovery, dubbed LB-1, boasts a huge mass that’s about 70 times that of the sun, according to a study published Wednesday by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Advertisement “Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our galaxy,” lead of the study, Prof. LIU Jifeng, said in a press release. “We thought that very massive stars with chemical composition typical of our Galaxy must shed most of their gas in powerful stellar winds, as they approach the end of their life. Therefore, they should not leave behind such a massive remnant. LB-1 is twice as massive as what we thought possible.” Most Read Red Auerbach fired a Celtics ballboy for being a Knicks fan, but the ballboy got the last laugh FedEx booted worker after he took approved leave for surgery: lawsuit When the prison is a crime: Jeffrey Epstein and the Metropolitan Correctional Center That means the discovery could completely reshape the understanding of how such mass objects and entities form in space, he added. [More News] Underwater loudspeakers might be the answer to restoring damaged coral reefs, claims new report » Astronomers used the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope to look for stars that orbit an invisible object, pulled in by its gravity, in their search for LB-1. Upon finding what they’d been hunting for, scientists followed up with observatories in Spain and the United States. In the end, they confirmed they’d discovered a star about eight times larger than the sun orbiting a black hole every 79 days. Scientist described the massive space object as the star’s “dark companion,” located about 15 thousand light years from Earth. Despite the black hole’s enormous size, “such a search is like looking for a proverbial needle in a haystack: only one star in a thousand may be circling a black hole.” Astronomers discover black hole so massive they previously thought it was impossible for it to exist
Astronomers discover black hole so massive they previously thought it was impossible for it to exist
Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole in the Milky Way Galaxy so big they previously thought it was impossible that it could exist. The enormous discovery, dubbed LB-1, boasts a huge mass that’s about 70 times that of the sun, according to a study published Wednesday by astronomers from the National Astronomical Observatory of China of the Chinese Academy of Sciences. Advertisement “Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our galaxy,” lead of the study, Prof. LIU Jifeng, said in a press release. “We thought that very massive stars with chemical composition typical of our Galaxy must shed most of their gas in powerful stellar winds, as they approach the end of their life. Therefore, they should not leave behind such a massive remnant. LB-1 is twice as massive as what we thought possible.” Most Read Red Auerbach fired a Celtics ballboy for being a Knicks fan, but the ballboy got the last laugh FedEx booted worker after he took approved leave for surgery: lawsuit When the prison is a crime: Jeffrey Epstein and the Metropolitan Correctional Center That means the discovery could completely reshape the understanding of how such mass objects and entities form in space, he added. [More News] Underwater loudspeakers might be the answer to restoring damaged coral reefs, claims new report » Astronomers used the Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope to look for stars that orbit an invisible object, pulled in by its gravity, in their search for LB-1. Upon finding what they’d been hunting for, scientists followed up with observatories in Spain and the United States. In the end, they confirmed they’d discovered a star about eight times larger than the sun orbiting a black hole every 79 days. Scientist described the massive space object as the star’s “dark companion,” located about 15 thousand light years from Earth. Despite the black hole’s enormous size, “such a search is like looking for a proverbial needle in a haystack: only one star in a thousand may be circling a black hole.” Astronomers discover black hole so massive they previously thought it was impossible for it to exist
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