Astronomers using the Multi Unit Spectroscopic Explorer (MUSE) instrument on ESO’s Very Large Telescope have discovered a low-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a satellite galaxy of the Milky Way, some 160,000 light-years away. The newly-discovered black hole resides in NGC 1850, a 100-million-year-old stellar cluster in the Large Magellanic Cloud. Named NGC [...]