Astronomers have found the closest Black hole known to Earth, at a distance of 1,600 light years.
On Friday, scientists reported it This black hole It is ten times larger than the sun and three times closer than the previous record holder.
The hole was discovered by observing the movement of its companion star, which orbits the black hole at approximately the same distance as the Earth orbits the sun.
Karim El-Badri, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, said: Black hole It was initially discovered using the European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft.
Al-Badri and his team followed the Gemini International Observatory in Hawaii to confirm their findings, which were published in the Royal Astronomical Society’s Monthly Notices.
Karim El Badry of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics
