How many others will they find?
Archival data from Hubble and supportive observations from Webb have located their first stellar-mass black hole in the star cluster Omega Centauri.
Omega Centauri may contain 10,000 tiny black holes, but none of them have been spotted until now.
Scientists have long suspected that this star cluster was a hotspot for a certain kind of black hole. But for decades, they had been unable to spot any
Now that the first stellar-mass black hole in Omega Centauri has been discovered, astronomers suspect that this will open the floodgates for many more.