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Using the technique of gravitational microlensing, NASA researchers have identified a rogue black hole moving freely in the Milky Way galaxy, where the gravity of the object distorted the light from a far-off star. This stellar-mass black hole, which is the remnant of a long-ago supernova, is the nearest confirmed rogue black hole to our galactic vicinity. Experts predict that there could be as many as 100 million similar entities moving unseen through the galaxy.

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00:00What if a black hole was silently drifting through our galaxy?
00:03Right now.
00:05Scientists at NASA have just confirmed something incredible.
00:08A rogue black hole moving freely through the Milky Way.
00:11With no star system attached, this isn't the giant at the center of our galaxy.
00:16It's a smaller but deadly stellar mass black hole.
00:19The leftover core of a massive star that exploded.
00:23And got flung into space.
00:25And here's the shocking part.
00:26There could be up to 100 million of these invisible objects drifting around.
00:31So how did scientists even find it?
00:33They used something called gravitational microlensing.
00:37The black hole bent light from a distant star.
00:40Revealing itself without emitting any light at all.
00:43This discovery proves one thing.
00:46Our galaxy is filled with unseen giants.
00:49Moving in complete darkness.
00:51This black hole is thousands of light years away.
00:54Poses no threat to Earth.
00:55But it changes everything we thought we knew about space.
00:59The universe is not just vast.
01:02It's crowded with invisible monsters.
01:04We're only beginning to detect.
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