Scientists discover hidden black hole outside galaxy(1/2)

This handout artist's impression released on Nov. 11, 2021, by the European Southern Observatory (ESO), shows a compact black hole 11 times as massive as the Sun and the five-solar-mass star orbiting it, 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. (Photo/Agencies)

This handout image released on Nov. 11, 2021, by the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and made with and overlay of observations conducted in visible light with ESO Very Large Telescope (VLT) and NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope (HST), shows NGC1850, a cluster of thousands of stars roughly 160 000 light-years away in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a Milky Way neighbour. (Photo/Agencies)

Astronomers have directly detected a black hole in a very young star cluster outside our galaxy for the first time, with a method promising new discoveries of these hard to pinpoint objects, according to a study released on Nov. 11, 2021. The reddish filaments surrounding the cluster, made of vast clouds of hydrogen, are believed to be the remnants of supernova explosions.