An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing
(2022)
Journal Article
Sahu, K. C., Anderson, J., Casertano, S., Bond, H. E., Udalski, A., Dominik, M., …Collaboration, R. (2022). An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing. Astrophysical Journal, 933(1),
We report the first unambiguous detection and mass measurement of an isolated stellar-mass black hole (BH). We used the Hubble Space Telescope (HST) to carry out precise astrometry of the source star of the long-duration (t_E ~ 270 days), high-magnif... Read More about An Isolated Stellar-Mass Black Hole Detected Through Astrometric Microlensing.