0 Black Hole Baby Spotted Being Born.

For the first time ever, a black hole has been seen being born out of a supernova of a star perhaps 20 times the mass of our sun.

THE GIST

• A supernova spotted in a nearby galaxy in 1979 appears to have produced the first ever observed baby black hole.
• This is the first time a stellar black hole (as opposed those giant, galaxy-centered black holes) has been seen being born.
• The discovery could help sort out the fates of many other stars with masses close to the black hole threshold. 

 

A 30-year-old object believed to be the youngest black hole ever seen, is a remnant of SN 1979C, a supernova in the galaxy M100, shown here, approximately 50 million light-years from Earth.

Link: http://news.discovery.com/space/baby-black-hole-gamma-ray.html