NASA’s Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster’s Missing Black Holes - NASA Science
Using more than 20 years of Hubble data and recent Webb observations, researchers ruled out a neutron star and measured a 4.46-solar-mass companion.
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The 1st of 10,000 'missing' black holes in the Omega Centauri star cluster has been found by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes
The first of 10,000 missing black holes in the Omega Centauri globular cluster has been found thanks to teamwork by the Hubble and James Webb space telescopes.The two observatories discovered the black hole after watching a star orbiting around something massive but dark, and which therefore could not be seen. The Hubble data ran from 2003 to 2023, and the James Webb Space Telescope picked up after that to help refine the measurements. Astronome…
NASA discovers missing black hole in Omega Centauri star cluster
Data from NASA’s Hubble Space Telescope and James Webb Space Telescope have located the first missing black hole in the massive globular star cluster Omega Centauri, a discovery that evaded astronomers for decades. Omega Centauri left astronomers stumped, as it should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars. Yet the population of black holes has avoided...
The massive globular cluster of Omega Centauri stars has been intriguing astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left by explosive stars, but the evidence of their existence is rare. Today, astronomers using NASA's Hubble space telescope archive data and observations from the James Webb Space Telescope [...]
In the globular cluster Omega Centauri it should be teeming with comparatively small black holes, but one has not found one yet. So far.
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