Credit: NASA, ESA and the Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA)
"Omega Centauri has been known as an unusual globular cluster for a long time. A new result obtained by the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Observatory reveals that the explanation behind Omega Centauriâ€s peculiarities may be a black hole hidden in its centre. One implication of the discovery is that it is very likely that Omega Centauri is not a globular cluster at all, but a dwarf galaxy stripped of its outer stars, as some scientists have suspected for a few years."
Credit: NASA/ESA and the Digitized Sky Survey 2.
A wide star field image of the region around Omega Centauri (NGC 5139).
Credit: A. Fujii
Southern Milky-Way: At the centre, the constellation of Centaurus, where the globular cluster Omega Centauri is located.
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