{"id":1869,"date":"2026-07-20T15:56:16","date_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/astronomers-find-omega-centauris-first-stellar-mass-black-hole\/"},"modified":"2026-07-20T15:56:16","modified_gmt":"2026-07-20T15:56:16","slug":"astronomers-find-omega-centauris-first-stellar-mass-black-hole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/2026\/07\/20\/astronomers-find-omega-centauris-first-stellar-mass-black-hole\/","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Find Omega Centauri\u2019s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole"},"content":{"rendered":"<div><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"580\" height=\"580\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.sci.news\/images\/2026\/07\/image_14928-oMEGACat-BH-2.jpg\" class=\"attachment-full size-full wp-post-image\" alt=\"Whitaker et al. found Omega Centauri\u2019s first stellar-mass black hole, which has a visible star companion that is shown in greater detail. Image credit: ESA \/ NASA \/ Maximilian H\u00e4berle, MPIA \/ Joseph DePasquale, STScI.\" loading=\"lazy\" style=\"margin-bottom: 15px\" \/><\/div>\n<p>After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive stellar system in the Milky Way found so far, with a stellar mass of 3.6 million solar masses.<\/p>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/astronomy\/omega-centauris-first-stellar-mass-black-hole-14928.html\">Astronomers Find Omega Centauri\u2019s First Stellar-Mass Black Hole<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"nofollow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"bkbc-source\">Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sci.news\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Sci.News: Breaking Science News<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After decades of searching, astronomers have pinpointed the first of an estimated 10,000 stellar-mass black holes thought to lurk in Omega Centauri, the most massive [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":1870,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[319,318],"class_list":["post-1869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science","tag-breaking-science-news","tag-sci-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1869"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1869\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bkbc.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}