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Lone Black Hole Passes in Front of Star (Hubble and Ground-Based Views)

Two international teams of astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy.

Credit: NASA/ESA and Dave Bennett (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

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Id:	opo0003a
Object:	MACHO 96-BLG-05
Type:	Quasars, Black Holes & Active Galaxies
Instru-ment:	WFPC2, Ground-based
Width:	3001
Height:	2401

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Lone Black Hole Passes in Front of Star (Hubble and Ground-Based Views)

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