SPACE: Scientists Spot a Medium-Sized Black Hole Wandering the Galaxy
Scientists think that they’ve spotted a rare, Jupiter-size black hole casually strolling through the Milky Way galaxy. Of course, scientists can’t see any black holes directly — but new research tracking a celestial cloud structure saw strange behavior that may have been caused by just such an invisible object. That data came courtesy of the Atacama Large Millimeter/submillimeter Array (ALMA), a set of 66 telescopes scattered across the Atacama Desert in northern Chile. “When I checked the ALMA data for the first time, I was really excited because the observed gas showed obvious orbital motions, which strongly suggest an invisible … Read more