Astronomers have discovered a stellar mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud 
Astronomers have discovered a small black hole outside the Milky Way telescope – VLT (Very Large Telescope) in Chile. This technique could help detect hidden black holes in the Milky Way and nearby galaxies, as well as shed light on how these mysterious objects arise and evolve. This is reported in a press release on EurekAlert !.
The black hole is located in NGC 1850, an open cluster of thousands of stars at a distance of about 160 thousand light years from Earth, in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a neighboring galaxy to the Milky Way … The mass of an exotic object is 11 times the mass of the Sun. The black hole was discovered due to the gravitational effect it exerts on the nearest star with a mass of five Suns.
Astronomers have previously found such small black holes of “stellar mass” in other galaxies, capturing the X-ray glow emitted by the absorption of matter, or gravitational waves that occur when black holes collide with each other or with neutron stars. For the first time, such an object was found using ground-based observations aimed at finding signs of gravitational perturbation exerted by a black hole on a neighboring star.
Using the dynamic method in similar star clusters will help to discover even more young black holes and elucidate the mechanism of their evolution .