Tag: MUSE

This artist’s impression shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and the five-solar-mass star orbiting it. The two objects are located in NGC 1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbour. The distortion of the star’s shape is due to the strong gravitational force exerted by the black hole. Not only does the black hole’s gravitational force distort the shape of the star, but it also influences its orbit. By looking at these subtle orbital effects, a team of astronomers were able to infer the presence of the black hole, making it the first small black hole outside of our galaxy to be found this way. For this discovery, the team used the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument at ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile. Credit: ESO/M. Kornmesser

Black Hole Found Hiding In Star Cluster Outside Our Galaxy

MessageToEagle.com | November 12, 2021

Eddie Gonzales Jr. – MessageToEagle.com – Using the European Southern Observatory’s Very Large Telescope (ESO’s VLT), astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way by

Study reveals the presence of a hitherto undetected component of the universe: large masses of gas surrounding distant galaxies. Image cr edit: Instituto de Astrofísica de Canarias (IAC)

Astronomy

Vast Cosmic Reservoirs Of Undetected Component Of The Universe Now Observed By Astrophysicists

MessageToEagle.com | October 3, 2018

MessageToEagle.com – An international team of scientists report the presence of a hitherto undetected component of the universe—large masses of gas surrounding distant galaxies. Their study that is published

Astronomy

MUSE Instrument Discovers 72 New Unseen Galaxies In Constellation Of Fornax (The Furnace)

MessageToEagle.com | November 30, 2017

MessageToEagle.com – Astronomers – working with the MUSE instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile – discovered 72 new galaxies in the southern constellation of Fornax (The Furnace).