A black hole that is not a black hole is what?

Well its a window; a region within a dense gas cloud where jets from the formation of new stars have opened the way. NGC 1999 a cloud of gases in the night sky has a hole; originally thought to be a region of very dense gases. The Hershel Infrared Space telescope was pointed in the direction of this cloud of gas to view nearby young stars, the area of the gas cloud was still black. Infrared telescopes are able to see beyond dense clouds of gas which they thought this region was. Speculation was that the region was just immensely dense; this is not the case. The importance to this discovery is that it will provide us a window into a cloud of gas to watch new stars form as we don't really know what goes on out there to create a star.