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Rogue Black Hole 5000 Light Years Away - Hubble Finds Evidence
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24/05/2025
The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes wandering around our galaxy.
Credit: NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
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Though an estimated 100 million black holes roam our Milky Way galaxy,
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these objects are invisible and so very difficult to detect.
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Astronomers now believe they may have precisely measured the mass of an isolated black hole
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for the first time. After six years of observations, NASA's Hubble Space Telescope
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found evidence for a lone black hole about 5,000 light years away wandering through interstellar
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space. Black holes roaming our galaxy are born from rare monstrous stars less than 1,000th of
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the galaxy's stellar population that are many times more massive than our sun. These stars die
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in supernova explosions. Their core is crushed by the star's own gravity into a black hole.
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Because the detonation is asymmetrical, the black hole may get a kick, sending it careening through
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our galaxy. Hubble detected the magnified and deflected light from a star lined up exactly
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behind the potential black hole as its intense gravity warps space itself. The measurements
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indicate the black hole weighs seven solar masses and is traveling through space at 100,000 miles per
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hour. But don't worry, there's a lot of space between Earth and this roaming black hole.
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