Artist’s illustration of a rogue black hole Shutterstock/Vadim Sadovski
An isolated stellar-mass black hole has been detected floating through interstellar space for the first time.
Astronomers typically spot black holes by measuring their interactions with nearby stars, which can produce vast plumes of gas or radiation. But isolated stars, which astronomers have observed in their millions, imply that isolated black holes should also fill the sky, as dying stars can birth black holes once they explode in a supernova.
鈥淸Isolated stellar-mass black holes] aren鈥檛 rare, but they鈥檝e never been found,鈥 says at the Space Telescope…
