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Stellar black hole - Artist view

by

ESO/Novapix

Reference

a-blh02-00034

Date

2015-07-28

This artist’s impression depicts a stellar-mass black hole. The black hole has a mass of about twenty times the mass of the Sun and is associated with a Wolf–Rayet star : a star that will become a black hole itself. The black hole is stripping matter away from the star as they orbit each other.