NGC 300 X-1 in the spiral galaxy NGC 300
eso_eso1004c January 27th, 2010
Credit: ESO/P. Crowther
Astronomers using ESO’s Very Large Telescope (VLT) have detected a stellar-mass black hole much further away than any other previously known. With a mass about twenty times that of the Sun, this is also the second most massive stellar-mass black hole ever found. The newly announced black hole lies in a spiral galaxy called NGC 300, six million light-years from Earth. This image obtained with the FORS2 instrument on the VLT is centred on the position of the black hole. The image covers a field of view of about 2x2 arcminutes, or about 4000 light-years at the distance of NGC 300. The image is based on data obtained through a wide B filter and two narrow-band filters centred on 500 nm and H-alpha.
Provider: European Southern Observatory
Image Source: https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1004c/
Curator: European Southern Observatory, Garching bei München, Germany
Image Use Policy: Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License
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- ID
- eso1004c
- Subject Category
- C.3.1.10 C.3.2.4 C.5.1.1
- Subject Name
- NGC 300 X-1
- Credits
- ESO/P. Crowther
- Release Date
- 2010-01-27T12:00:00
- Lightyears
- Redshift
- Reference Url
- https://www.eso.org/public/images/eso1004c/
- Type
- Observation
- Image Quality
- Distance Notes
- Distance in light years from ESO.
- Facility
- Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope, Very Large Telescope
- Instrument
- FORS2, FORS2, FORS2
- Color Assignment
- Red, Green, Blue
- Band
- Optical, Optical, Optical
- Bandpass
- H-alpha, OIII, B
- Central Wavelength
- Start Time
- Integration Time
- Dataset ID
- Notes
- Coordinate Frame
- ICRS
- Equinox
- J2000
- Reference Value
- 13.7913380193, -37.702130432
- Reference Dimension
- 930.0, 928.0
- Reference Pixel
- 465.0, 464.0
- Scale
- -3.49426445608e-05, 3.49426445608e-05
- Rotation
- -0.13999999999999962
- Coordinate System Projection:
- TAN
- Quality
- Full
- FITS Header
- Notes
- Creator (Curator)
- European Southern Observatory
- URL
- http://www.eso.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
- European Southern Observatory
- Publisher ID
- eso
- Resource ID
- eso1004c
- Resource URL
- https://www.eso.org/public/archives/images/original/eso1004c.tif
- Related Resources
- Metadata Date
- 2010-01-21T11:26:15+01:00
- Metadata Version
- 1.1
Detailed color mapping information coming soon...
