SpaceScientists are BAFFLED after spotting a lone black hole drifting through space – with no star orbiting it Posted on April 24, 2025 by Administrator Scientists have been left baffled after spotting a lone black hole drifting through the Milky Way, without any orbiting stars. Although this black hole is seven times more massive than our sun, it would have remained totally invisible to astronomers were it not for a ‘one in a million’ chance. Since black holes absorb any light that falls into them, the only sign of their existence is the way their gravity stretches spacetime and bends the light from distant stars.
