Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole

Jul 20, 2026 - 09:15
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Astronomers Find Omega Centauri’s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole
Whitaker et al. found Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole, which has a visible star companion that is shown in greater detail. Image credit: ESA / NASA / Maximilian Häberle, MPIA / Joseph DePasquale, STScI.

After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive stellar system in the Milky Way found so far, with a stellar mass of 3.6 million solar masses.

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