‘Black hole police’ discover a dormant black hole outside the Milky Way galaxy

A team of international experts who are known for debunking black hole discoveries have found a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, a galaxy that neighbors the Milky Way. The team includes Kareem El-Badry—nicknamed by fellow astronomers as the “black hole destroyer”—of the Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian (CfA).