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The publication of Chinese astronomers about a black hole as massive as 70 solar masses immediately triggered theoretical investigations as well as additional observations by other astrophysicists, because theoretically stellar black holes have masses of about ten times that of our Sun. The Astronomical Institute of the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg together with astronomers of the University of Potsdam had a closer look at this mystical object. Today, they published a paper describing that it may not necessarily be a black hole, it could possibly be a massive neutron star or even an ‘ordinary’ star. See also the press release at the ECAP webpage.