New sleeping black hole found outside the Milky Way

This was observed in a latest study by the European Southern Observatory (ESO)

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An elusive type of Black Hole was detected in a nearby galaxy for the first time.

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That makes the discovery of the phenomenon which was only there in theory.

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It took six years of observations for the European Southern Observatory (ESO)’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) in Chile to find this.

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The recently discovered black hole is known as VFTS 243.

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It is at least 9 times the mass of the Sun and orbits a hot blue star 25 times the mass of the Sun

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The black hole is very far away but it keeps growing.

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A black hole is a region of space whose gravitational field is so strong that not even light can escape it.

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Once the black hole is formed, the gravitational pull of the black hole region is so strong that all matter attracted to it is compressed until it is torn apart.

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