The next big discovery in astronomy? Scientists probably found it years ago – but they don't know it yet
- Written by Eileen Meyer, Assistant Professor of Physics, University of Maryland, Baltimore County
An artist's illustration of a black hole "eating" a star.NASA/JPL-Caltech
Earlier this year, astronomers stumbled upon a fascinating finding: Thousands of black holes likely exist near the center of our galaxy.
The X-ray images that enabled this discovery weren’t from some state-of-the-art new telescope. Nor were they even recently taken...