M22

GLOBULAR CLUSTER · the southern showpiece

M22 — AI illustration of the real object

DISTANCE about 10,000 light yearsSPECIAL two black holes found inside

One of the brightest globular clusters in the sky, hanging above the teapot of Sagittarius in front of the Milky Way's glowing center. Radio telescopes found two stellar black holes lurking among its hundreds of thousands of stars, overturning the old belief that globulars eject all their black holes. Even ancient star balls keep secrets.

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