A stellar black-hole binary with a massive stellar companion. A 2011 dynamical analysis combined optical photometry and spectroscopy with a distance constraint and inferred solar masses for the compact object. This is that study's historical estimate, not a claim about the latest measurement.[ref]
The Mass of the Black Hole in Cygnus X-1 by Jerome A. Orosz and others. abstract and dynamical-model constraints
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