An immense stellar black hole 15,000 light-years from Earth is twice as massive as what researchers believed was imaginable in our own galaxy. The black hole is 70 times more massive than the sun, the researchers scanned the skies with China’s Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope. Researchers searched for stars that orbit seemingly invisible objects using this telescope. That’s how the researchers came across one star 15,000 light-years away that was dancing around nothing but was held in an orbit by something that could only be a black hole. This unusual finding, along with the LIGO-Virgo discoveries of binary black hole collisions during the past four years, really leads towards a reawakening in our understanding of black hole astrophysics.
