Astronomers have found a strange black hole in a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. The special thing about it: The black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud is “quiet” – it does not reveal itself through radiation, but only through its gravitational pull. According to the researchers, it would be the first discovery of a quiet black hole outside the Milky Way. In addition, this stellar black hole was apparently created by a “direct collapse”, i.e. without an accompanying supernova explosion, according to the scientists in the journal “Nature Astronomy”. Astronomers suspect that there are billions of such stellar black holes in the Milky Way and surrounding neighboring galaxies. However, only a few are actually known.
Curious ‘quiet’ black hole discovered beyond the Milky Way
