More information: Jiwon Jesse Han et al, Hypervelocity Stars Trace a Supermassive Black Hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud, arXiv (2025). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2502.00102.

The Large Magellanic Cloud, a close neighbor to the Milky Way, may house a giant black hole. It's the closest supermassive black hole outside of our galaxy.

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper that has not yet completed peer review, the astronomers who demonstrated ...

The Large Magellanic Cloud is located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, making it among the closest galaxies to the Milky Way. That makes this the nearest supermassive black hole to us aside ...

If more of these trace back to the Cloud, it would provide further confirmation that a black hole is at work. In the much longer term, the Milky Way is destined to have a closer relationship to the ...

Fast-moving stars in the Milky Way indicate there could be a supermassive black hole in the neighboring Large Magellanic Cloud—something that has never been detected in a smaller galaxy.

A supermassive black hole in the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) may be the source of nine stars zooming through our galaxy – a surprising hint that dwarf galaxies can host large black holes.

Bending light: Artist's impression of a microlensing event caused by a black hole observed from Earth toward the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). The light of a background star located in the LMC is bent ...

“The Large Magellanic Cloud, given its mass and structure, is totally expected to have a supermassive black hole of this mass. We just needed to find the evidence for it,” Mr Han said.

Some fast-moving stars within the Milky Way have been traced back to the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC). In a preprint paper that has not yet completed peer review, the astronomers who demonstrated ...