BBC NEWS | Science/Nature | Black hole found in ancient lair
“We were preparing for a long, systematic search of thousands of globular clusters with the hope of finding just one black hole,” said Dr Maccarone. “But bingo, we found one as soon as we started the search. It was only the second globular cluster we looked at.”
The black hole is located in a globular cluster associated with a galaxy named NGC 4472, some 55 million light-years away.
Globular clusters are among the oldest structures in the Universe. They contain thousands to millions of stars packed into a region of space just a few tens of light-years across. [Full text]