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January 13, 2000


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 EMBARGOED UNTIL: 12:30 pm (EST) January 13, 2000

Lone Black Holes Discovered Adrift in the Galaxy

Two international teams of astronomers using NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and ground-based telescopes in Australia and Chile have discovered the first examples of isolated stellar-mass black holes adrift among the stars in our galaxy.

Credit: NASA and Dave Bennett (University of Notre Dame, Indiana)

 

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