For the first time, Chinese scientists have discovered an unexpected black hole

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Researchers from the Chinese National Academy of Sciences have announced a new astronomical precedent that no one had expected in astrophysics. .

The end of the stars
The findings, published on November 27 in the journal Nature, say the LB-1 stellar black hole is about 70 suns, and the prevailing theory is that stellar black holes don't It can cross the 20-block barrier anyway.

Stellar black holes are the result of the collapse of giant stars on themselves, and are different from the giant black holes that exist in the centers of galaxies, the latter do not yet know their nature and how to form, but the mass is enormous.

For example, at the center of our galaxy is the giant hole called "arc A *," which, according to the latest estimates, is about four million solar masses, a huge difference.

Rethink
To arrive at the results, the team used China's big telescope, Guo Shaojing, which studies 10 million stars from the Milky Way, to look for an unusual movement of a star that seems to be orbiting something unseen.

Chinese researchers used data from the telescope to revolve a star around the LP-1 black hole once every 71 days, to ascertain the mass of the hole. Scientists already cannot observe black holes, but their nature can be identified from their surroundings.

The researchers hope that this sudden discovery will prompt specialists in astrophysics to reconsider theories that explain the nature of stellar black holes. , Which keeps a small mass of the star to turn into a black hole.

Chinese Dragon
The new discovery comes against the backdrop of a huge Chinese project spanning decades, aimed at development driven by the scientific renaissance.

According to a report in the journal Nature in 2017, the most popular countries for discreet research are the United States, China, Germany, Britain and Japan. .