AFP, BEIJINGAstronomers have discovered a black hole in the Milky Way so huge that it challenges existing models of how stars evolve, researchers said yesterday. “Black holes of such mass should not even exist in our galaxy, according to most of the current models of stellar evolution,” he added. Scientists generally believe that there are two types of black holes. Supermassive black holes are at least 1 million times bigger than the sun and their origins are uncertain. “That means that this is a new kind a black hole, formed by another physical mechanism.”LB-1 was discovered by an international team of scientists using China’s sophisticated LAMOST telescope.
