Euclid's detailed imaging of the NGC 6397 globular cluster may reveal tidal tails and offer new insights into dark matter's role in the Milky Way, as well as the evolution of one of the galaxy's oldest stellar structures. Capturing the Sparkle of NGC 6397 This sparkly image shows Euclid’s view on
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February 21, 2021
For the first time, astronomers have detected the presence of a throng of black holes crowding near the center of an ancient globular cluster.
In this episode of Space Sparks, ESA/Hubble summarizes their findings.
Sometimes in science when you set out to find something you had predicted, you instead find something quite different. This was the case recently when astronomers using the Hubble Space Telescope examined the core of a globular cluster, a “ball” of densely packed old stars named NGC 6397, looking for one central intermediate-mass black hole. Instead they unexpectedly found a whole
swarm of small black holes, as reported by NASA and ESA on February 11, 2021.