
In the centre, there are four hot, massive stars known as the Trapezium.
Ultraviolet ionizing radiation from the Trapezium stars, mostly from the brightest star Theta-1 Orionis C.
We are guessing that it is about three million years old, the Orion Nebula Cluster was even more compact in its younger years and a dynamical study indicates that runaway stellar collisions at an earlier age may have formed a black hole with more than 100 times the mass of the Sun.
The presence of a black hole within the cluster could explain the observed high velocities of the Trapezium stars. The Orion Nebula's distance of some 1,500 light-years would make it the closest known black hole to planet Earth.
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