Astronomers report the first black hole star, named MoM-BH*-1

Astronomers studying a little red dot found by the James Webb Space Telescope announced the discovery of the first black hole star. The object is named MoM-BH*-1. It lies in the constellation Cetus. The finding was published in Nature.

MoM-BH*-1 is described as the size of the Solar System. It emits a light that outshines its host galaxy. Those two comparisons, size and brightness, are the physical claims in the report. The object is the first one classed as a black hole star.

A little red dot is the kind of source the team was studying in Webb data. The report says the black hole star announcement came from that work. It does not give a distance in light-years. It does not give a mass in numbers.

Cetus is the constellation named as the location on the sky. A constellation name locates an object by direction, not by a street address. The host galaxy is mentioned only to say the object's light outshines it. The galaxy is not otherwise named in the short note.

Nature is the journal that published the result. The James Webb Space Telescope is the observatory tied to the little red dot. No second object is given the same class in this announcement. The first-of-class claim applies to MoM-BH*-1.

The eclipse the same day was a solar event in the inner solar system. This discovery is a distant object. The two science items share a date and nothing else. The black hole star report stands on the name, the constellation, the Solar System-scale size, and the light that outshines the host galaxy.