Lone Black Hole Passes in Front of Star (Hubble and Ground-Based Views)
Two international teams of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy.
Credit:About the Image
About the Object
| Name: | MACHO 96-BLG-05 |
| Type: | Local Universe : Star : Evolutionary Stage : Black Hole Local Universe : Cosmology : Phenomenon : Lensing |
| Category: | Quasars and Black Holes |
Colours & filters
| Band | Wavelength | Telescope |
|---|---|---|
| Optical V | 555 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
| Infrared I | 814 nm |
Hubble Space Telescope
WFPC2 |
Notes: The left two image are from the Cerro Tololo Inter-American Observatory.