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gary
30-11-2019, 11:49 AM
In a November 28, 2019 article at The Conversation (https://theconversation.com/a-surprisingly-big-black-hole-might-have-swallowed-a-star-from-the-inside-out-and-scientists-are-baffled-127795), Roberto Soria,
a professor at the Sydney University of Sydney School of Physics,
discusses a mystery around the origin of a black hole dubbed LB-1,
which is about 15,000 light years away and is about 70 times as heavy as
the Sun.









Full article here :-
https://theconversation.com/a-surprisingly-big-black-hole-might-have-swallowed-a-star-from-the-inside-out-and-scientists-are-baffled-127795

"A wide star–black-hole binary system from radial-velocity measurements"
by Liu et. al. Nature, abstract :-
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-019-1766-2