# @hubbleesa on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DavFOdkifEf
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/67747318-hubbleesa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2026-07-13T14:00:55.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Hubble Space Telescope (@hubbleesa) — https://gondola.cc/hubbleesa

## Caption

🆕 Omega Centauri’s first stellar-mass black hole has been found! ⭐🕳️

🔴 The massive globular cluster Omega Centauri has puzzled astronomers for decades. It should be filled with black holes left behind by exploding stars. But where are they? 🤔

🔴 At last, astronomers have found the first stellar-mass black hole in the cluster. They used archival data from the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and supportive observations from esawebb to measure the tiny movements of stars and locate the black hole.

🔴 The black hole, oMEGACat BH-2, has some surprising qualities, including a much lower-than-expected mass and the longest orbital period of any black hole binary ever seen!

For more information check the link in bio.

📷 europeanspaceagency / hubbleesa & NASA , M. Häberle (MPIA)

#ESA #Hubble

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