ESOcast 146 Light: Odd Behaviour of Star Reveals Black Hole in Giant Star Cluster (4K UHD) from black web series on youtube Watch Video
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Description: Astronomers using ESO’s MUSE instrument on the Very Large Telescope in Chile have discovered a star in the cluster NGC 3201 that is behaving very strangely. It appears to be orbiting an invisible black hole with about four times the mass of the Sun — the first such inactive stellar-mass black hole found in a globular cluster.nnThis important discovery impacts on our understanding of the formation of these star clusters, black holes, and the origins of gravitational wave events.nnThis short E
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