
Hidden in Plain Sight: A Neighboring Supermassive Black Hole Revealed by High-Speed Stellar Sleuthing
Astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole within the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This black hole, with a mass 600,000 times that of the Sun, was identified by tracking hypervelocity stars using the ESA’s Gaia satellite. The movements of these stars, propelled to high speeds, pointed to the influence of…