More information: Jiwon Jesse Han et al, Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00102 Provided by Universe Today ...

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper that has not yet completed peer review, the astronomers who demonstrated ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, making it among the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. That makes this the nearest supermassive black hole to us aside ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud—something that has never been detected in a smaller galaxy.

Gaia space telescope data reveals a previously undetected central black hole within the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), estimated at 600,000 solar masses. The discovery stems from the analysis of ...

The galaxy next door to the Milky Way, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC), could be hiding a monstrous secret. This dwarf galaxy, a satellite of our galaxy, may have its own supermassive black hole.

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes ...

If more of these trace back to the Cloud, it would provide further confirmation that a black hole is at work. In the much longer term, the Milky Way is destined to have a closer relationship to the ...

A secret black hole has been found hiding in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way. This giant black hole that weighs around 600,000 times the Sun was revealed by ...