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A noninteracting low-mass black hole–giant star binary system

Published:2019-11 Issue:6465 Volume:366 Page:637-640
ISSN:0036-8075
Container-title:Science
language:en
Short-container-title:Science

Author:

Thompson Todd A.¹²³^ORCID,Kochanek Christopher S.¹²^ORCID,Stanek Krzysztof Z.¹²,Badenes Carles⁴⁵^ORCID,Post Richard S.⁶^ORCID,Jayasinghe Tharindu¹²,Latham David W.⁷^ORCID,Bieryla Allyson⁷^ORCID,Esquerdo Gilbert A.⁷^ORCID,Berlind Perry⁷,Calkins Michael L.⁷^ORCID,Tayar Jamie¹⁸^ORCID,Lindegren Lennart⁹^ORCID,Johnson Jennifer A.¹²^ORCID,Holoien Thomas W.-S.¹⁰^ORCID,Auchettl Katie²¹¹¹²^ORCID,Covey Kevin¹³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Department of Astronomy, The Ohio State University, 140 W. 18th Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

2. Center for Cosmology and AstroParticle Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

3. Institute for Advanced Study, 1 Einstein Dr., Princeton, NJ 08540, USA.

4. Department of Physics and Astronomy and Pittsburgh Particle Physics, Astrophysics and Cosmology Center, University of Pittsburgh, 3941 O’Hara St., Pittsburgh, PA 15260, USA.

5. Institut de Ciències del Cosmos, Universitat de Barcelona, Martí Franqués 1, E08028 Barcelona, Spain.

6. Post Observatory, Lexington, MA 02421, USA.

7. Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, 60 Garden St., Cambridge, MA 02138, USA.

8. Institute for Astronomy, University of Hawaii, 2680 Woodlawn Dr., Honolulu, Hawaii 96822, USA.

9. Lund Observatory, Department of Astronomy and Theoretical Physics, Lund University, Box 43, 22100 Lund, Sweden.

10. The Observatories of the Carnegie Institution for Science, 813 Santa Barbara St., Pasadena, CA 91101, USA.

11. Department of Physics, The Ohio State University, 191 W. Woodruff Ave., Columbus, OH 43210, USA.

12. Dark Cosmology Centre, Niels Bohr Institute, University of Copenhagen, Lyngbyvej 2, 2100 Copenhagen, Denmark.

13. Department of Physics and Astronomy, Western Washington University, Mail Stop 9164, Bellingham, WA, 98225, USA.

Abstract

A black hole hiding in a binary star As material falls toward a black hole, it heats up and emits x-rays. Almost all black holes are discovered by this x-ray emission. Thompson et al. observed light from a giant star that is Doppler shifted, indicating an orbit around a binary companion. The companion object must weigh more than 2.6 solar masses, but it emits no light, including x-rays. This indicates the presence of a black hole that is not currently consuming any material. There may be a population of similarly hidden black holes that have been missed by x-ray observations. Science , this issue p. 637

Funder

National Science Foundation

Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation

Research Corporation for Science Advancement

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

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