Azelicus t1_iuditlf wrote
Reply to comment by PigSkinPoppa in A Monster Black Hole has Been Found Right in our Backyard (Astronomically Speaking) by joosth3
You don't detect black holes in a single photo.
You either detect them by studying the orbit of a close stellar companion (which seems to orbit a massive, non visibile object) or the effect of the distortion they produce on light passing close to them (an effect called "gravitational lensing").
For those reasons, we can't usually detect small, single black holes, even relatively close to us.
Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments