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Astronomers confirm the existence of a lone black hole (phys.org)
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[–] Lyrl@lemm.ee 5 points 1 month ago

Neat to see a 6-7 solar mass black hole spotted. First one without a companion star to give it away! As we get better at finding black holes of this size, will be interesting to see if they end up explaining part of the "dark matter" problem.