Zoom in onto the stellar black hole NGC 300 X-1
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected a stellar-mass black hole much further away than any other previously known. With a mass twenty times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar mass black hole ever found. The newly announced black hole lies in a spiral galaxy called NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.
This video zooms in onto the position of the system containing the stellar-mass black hole, and finishes with an artist’s impression of the system.
Credit:ESO/Digitized Sky Survey 2/P. Crowther/L. Calçada
Over de video
Id: | eso1004b |
Publicatiedatum: | 27 januari 2010 12:00 |
Gerelateerde berichten: | eso1004 |
Duur: | 53 s |
Frame rate: | 30 fps |
Over het object
Categorie: | Quasars and Black Holes |