First dormant black hole found outside the Milky Way

VFTS243 has a mass nine times that of the Sun's and is in a binary system with a companion star

A dormant black hole nine times the mass of the Sun has been found outside the Milky Way for the first time, in what researchers have called a very exciting discovery".

Though it is not the first contender, a researcher from the University of Sheffield says this black hole is the first to be unambiguously detected outside our galaxy".