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==Black hole VFTS 243== [[File:VFTS 243 in HST color.png|thumb|VFTS 243]] An [[x-ray]] quiet [[black hole]] was discovered in the Tarantula Nebula, the first outside of the [[Milky Way Galaxy]] that does not radiate strongly. The black hole has a mass of at least 9 solar masses and is in a circular orbit with its 25 solar mass [[blue giant]] companion [[VFTS 243]].<ref>{{cite journal |doi=10.1038/s41550-022-01730-y |title=An X-ray-quiet black hole born with a negligible kick in a massive binary within the Large Magellanic Cloud |year=2022 |last1=Shenar |first1=Tomer |last2=Sana |first2=Hugues |last3=Mahy |first3=Laurent |last4=El-Badry |first4=Kareem |last5=Marchant |first5=Pablo |last6=Langer |first6=Norbert |last7=Hawcroft |first7=Calum |last8=Fabry |first8=Matthias |last9=Sen |first9=Koushik |last10=Almeida |first10=Leonardo A. |last11=Abdul-Masih |first11=Michael |last12=Bodensteiner |first12=Julia |last13=Crowther |first13=Paul A. |last14=Gieles |first14=Mark |last15=Gromadzki |first15=Mariusz |last16=Hénault-Brunet |first16=Vincent |last17=Herrero |first17=Artemio |last18=Koter |first18=Alex de |last19=Iwanek |first19=Patryk |last20=Kozłowski |first20=Szymon |last21=Lennon |first21=Daniel J. |last22=Apellániz |first22=Jesús Maíz |last23=Mróz |first23=Przemysław |last24=Moffat |first24=Anthony F. J. |last25=Picco |first25=Annachiara |last26=Pietrukowicz |first26=Paweł |last27=Poleski |first27=Radosław |last28=Rybicki |first28=Krzysztof |last29=Schneider |first29=Fabian R. N. |last30=Skowron |first30=Dorota M. |journal=Nature Astronomy |volume=6 |issue=9 |pages=1085–1092 |arxiv=2207.07675 |bibcode=2022NatAs...6.1085S |s2cid=250626810 |display-authors=1 }}</ref> {{Clear}}
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