File:NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 (ESO 1004c).jpg
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English: Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected a stellar-mass black hole much further away than any other previously known. With a mass about twenty times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found. The newly announced black hole lies in a spiral galaxy called NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth.
This image obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the VLT is centred on the position of the black hole. The image covers a field of view of about 2x2 arcminutes, or about 4000 light-years at the distance of NGC 300. The image is based on data obtained through a wide B filter and two narrow-band filters centred on 500 nm and H-alpha. |
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| Source | NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 (ESO 1004c) |
| Author | ESO/P. Crowther |
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- File:Irregular Galaxy NGC 55 (ESO 0914a).jpg
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- File:NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 (ESO 1004b).jpg
- File:NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300 (ESO 1004c).jpg
- File:NGC 300 in the constellation of Sculptor (ESO 1037b).jpg
- File:Panning across the southern spiral NGC 300 (ESO 1037a).webm
- File:Stellar-mass black hole NGC 300 X-1.jpg
- File:The surroundings of NGC 300 (ESO 1004d).jpg
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