Biggest stellar-mass black hole in Milky Way is a mystery, scientists don't know how it was created

29. 11. 2019

Chinese scientists discovered new candidate for a stellar-mass black hole that defies current models of black hole creation. The black hole designated LB-1 has 68 solar masses and is orbited by young massive star on a circular orbit.

Black hole, stellar destruction

Biggest stellar-mass black holes

  
    Desgination
    Mass
(solar masses)
  

    GW170729
    80
  

    LB-1
    68
  

    GW170823
    66
  

    GW150914
    62
  

    GW170818
    60
  

    GW170809
    56