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Space Sparks Episode 16: Hubble Determines Mass of Isolated Black Hole Roaming Our Milky Way

June 10, 2022 · ESA/Hubble

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Following six years of meticulous observations, the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has provided, for the first time ever, clear evidence for a lone black hole drifting through interstellar space. This is the first time the mass of an isolated black hole has been measured.