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English: This artist’s impression depicts the newly discovered stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. The black hole has a mass about twenty times the mass of the Sun and is associated with a Wolf–Rayet star; a star that will become a black hole itself. Thanks to the observations performed with the FORS2 instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have confirmed an earlier hunch that the black hole and the Wolf–Rayet star dance around each other in a diabolic waltz, with a period of about 32 hours. The astronomers also found that the black hole is stripping matter away from the star as they orbit each other. How such a tightly bound system has survived the tumultuous phases that preceded the formation of the black hole is still a mystery.
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Source Artist’s impression of the black hole inside NGC 300 X-1 (ESO 1004a)
Author ESO/L. Calçada
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English: This artist’s impression depicts the stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. Thanks to the observations performed with the FORS2 instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have confirmed an earlier hunch that the black hole and the Wolf–Rayet star dance around each other in a diabolic waltz, with a period of about 32 hours.
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English: This artist’s impression depicts the stellar-mass black hole in the spiral galaxy NGC 300. Thanks to the observations performed with the FORS2 instrument mounted on ESO’s Very Large Telescope, astronomers have confirmed an earlier hunch that the black hole and the Wolf–Rayet star dance around each other in a diabolic waltz, with a period of about 32 hours.
Русский: Художественное представление двойной системы из звезды Вольфа — Райе и чёрной дыры звёздной массы, являющейся мощным источником рентгеновского излучения NGC 300 X-1
Tiếng Việt: Đoạn tư liệu nghệ thuật đầy ấn tượng này mô tả một lỗ đen khối lượng sao (hình thành bởi sự suy sụp hấp dẫn của các ngôi sao có khối lượng rất lớn) trong thiên hà xoắn NGC 300. Nhờ việc quan sát trong thời gian khoảng 32 giờ thông qua công cụ FORS2 gắn trên kính thiên văn cực lớn của ESO, các nhà thiên văn đã xác nhận dự đoán trước đó về việc lỗ đen và chòm sao Wolf-Rayet quấn quanh nhau như cùng khiêu vũ một điệu valse ma mị.
中文（简体）：NGC 300中心巨大黑洞的想象图

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