Astronomers in China have discovered something that technically shouldn’t even exist, at least according to what humans understand about space, black holes, and physics. Peering into space, the team of scientists spotted a black hole at a distance of around 15,000 light-years from Earth. What makes this cosmic feature so interesting is that it’s many times larger than what scientists believed was the upper limit for stellar black hole size.
It had been thought that stellar black holes — that is, black holes that are born in the wake of a large star’s death — max out at about 20 times the mass of our Sun. Stars larger than that, it was thought, expel much of their matter in death. The black hole called LB-1 is a whopping 70 times as massive as our Sun, forcing scientists to rethink their assumptions.
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