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Space, the final frontier@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

Astronomers discover closest black hole to Earth

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Astronomers discover closest black hole to Earth

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Space, the final frontier@lemmy.ml • 1 year ago

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Astronomers have discovered the closest black hole to Earth, the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close…

And a second closest black hole was just discovered https://arxiv.org/abs/2302.07880v1

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This dormant black hole is about 10 times more massive than the sun and is located about 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, making it three times closer to Earth than the previous record holder.