Where Did That Black Hole Come From?
esahubble_opo0218b September 17th, 2002
Credit: NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
Medium-size black holes actually do exist, according to the latest findings from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, but scientists had to look in some unexpected places to find them. The previously undiscovered black holes provide an important link that sheds light on the way in which black holes grow. Even more odd, these new black holes were found in the cores of glittering, 'beehive' swarms of stars called globular star clusters, which orbit our Milky Way and other galaxies. The black hole in globular cluster M15 is 4, 000 times more massive than our Sun.
Provider: Hubble Space Telescope | ESA
Image Source: https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0218b/
Curator: ESA/Hubble, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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Image Details
Position Details
Color Mapping
- ID
- opo0218b
- Subject Category
- B.3.1.10 B.3.6.4.2
- Subject Name
- Messier 15, NGC 7078
- Credits
- NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
- Release Date
- 2002-09-17T18:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.spacetelescope.org/images/opo0218b/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Facility
- None, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope, Hubble Space Telescope
- Instrument
- None, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2, WFPC2
- Color Assignment
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Optical, Infrared
- Bandpass
- -, I, H-alpha, OIII, V, B
- Central Wavelength
- 430, 439, 502, 547, 656, 814
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 322.492468368, 12.16453999
- Reference Dimension
- 585.0, 865.0
- Reference Pixel
- 293.5, 433.5
- Scale
- -2.75912981456e-05, 2.75912981456e-05
- Rotation
- -10.359999999999983
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- ESA/Hubble
- URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/
- Name
- Telephone
- Address
- Karl-Schwarzschild-Strasse 2
- City
- Garching bei München
- State/Province
- Postal Code
- D-85748
- Country
- Germany
- Rights
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
- Publisher
- ESA/Hubble
- Publisher ID
- esahubble
- Resource ID
- opo0218b
- Resource URL
- http://www.spacetelescope.org/static/archives/images/original/opo0218b.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2003-12-09T17:21:06+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
