MACHO-96-BLG-5

Image of MACHO-96-BLG-5

Object type| Black hole

Observation data
(Epoch J2000)

Constellation| Sagittarius

Right ascension

| 18h 05m 023s
Declination| −27° 42′ 17″
Distance| 0.5-2 kpc
Mass| 6 solar masses

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MACHO-96-BLG-5 (M96-95) is a stellar mass black hole that was discovered through gravitational microlensing.[1][2] It is located at a distance of 0.5-2 kiloparsecs from Earth towards the bulge of the Milky Way galaxy. It has ana estimated mass of 6 solar masses.[3]

## References

1. ↑ Abdurrahman, Fatima N.; Stephens, Haynes F.; Lu, Jessica R. (2021-05-01). "On the Possibility of Stellar Lenses in the Black Hole Candidate Microlensing Events MACHO-96-BLG-5 and MACHO-98-BLG-6". The Astrophysical Journal 912 (2): 146. doi:10.3847/1538-4357/abee83. ISSN 0004-637X. Bibcode: 2021ApJ...912..146A.
2. ↑ Forest Stephens, Haynes; Lu, Jessica (January 2018). "Late-time high-resolution images of the black hole candidate microlensing events, MACHO-96-BLG-5 and MACHO-98-BLG-6" (in en). American Astronomical Society Meeting Abstracts #231 231: 347.06. Bibcode: 2018AAS...23134706F. https://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2018AAS...23134706F/abstract.
3. ↑ Nucita, A. A.; De Paolis, F.; Ingrosso, G.; Elia, D.; de Plaa, J.; Kaastra, J. S. (2006-11-10). "An XMM-Newton Search for X-Ray Emission from the Microlensing Event MACHO-96-BLG-5". The Astrophysical Journal 651 (2): 1092–1097. doi:10.1086/507784. ISSN 0004-637X. Bibcode: 2006ApJ...651.1092N. https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1086/507784.

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