NASA's Hubble Discovers First of Star Cluster's Missing Black Holes in Omega Centauri

Summary

Astronomers using archival data from NASA's Hubble Space Telescope and supportive observations from the James Webb Space Telescope have discovered the first stellar-mass black hole in the massive globular cluster Omega Centauri. This finding, published in The Astrophysical Journal Letters, helps to address the long-standing puzzle of the cluster's missing black hole population.