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Astronomers Capture Stunning Close-Up of a Dying Star Beyond the Milky Way

November 22, 2024

Astronomers zoom in on a red supergiant in its final death throes 160,000 light-years away.

This artist’s impression shows what the binary system VFTS 243 might look like if we were observing it up close. The system, which is located in the Tarantula Nebula in the Large Magellanic Cloud, is composed of a hot, blue star with 25 times the Sun’s mass and a black hole, which is at least nine times the mass of the Sun. The sizes of the two binary components are not to scale: in reality, the blue star is about 200 000 times larger than the black hole. Note that the 'lensing' effect around the black hole is shown for illustration purposes only, to make this dark object more noticeable in the image. The inclination of the system means that, when looking at it from Earth, we cannot observe the black hole eclipsing the star.

Dormant black hole discovered outside Milky Way by ‘black hole police’

byJordan Strickler

The discovery gives astronomers a unique look at the processes that happen when black holes are born.

Astronomers calculate the distance to the neighboring galaxy

Researchers have, for the first time, calculated the distance to the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy neighboring the Milky Way. ...

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