Closest Black Hole To Earth Discovered, Ten Times Bigger Than Sun

November 05, 2022 By Alberto Mesti

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Black holes are the most extreme things in the cosmos. Supermassive copies of these dense formations are believed to be present in the centers of all big galaxies. The Milky Way alone contains an estimated 100 million stellar-mass black holes, which are much more common and weigh five to a hundred times as much as the Sun. But thus far, only a small number of them have been confirmed. [caption id="attachment_59336" align="aligncenter" width="1024"]

Image: Caltech-IPAC[/caption] Astronomers utilizing the Gemini North telescope on the island of Hawaii, one of the twin telescopes of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF's NOIRLab, have now called the closest black hole to Earth Gaia BH1. The previous record-holder, an X-ray pair in the constellation of the Monoceros, is three times further away from Earth than this object. It is located 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus and is nearly ten times as massive as the Sun. The new closest blackhole findings are now online, available to everyone by journal Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society on Friday, Nov. 4.

By Alberto Mesti

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Closest Black Hole To Earth Discovered, Ten Times Bigger Than Sun

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