by A black hole about 10 times more massive than our sun lurks just 1,560 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.
That's about twice as close as the previous proximity champ.
The newfound object, a stellar-mass black hole called Gaia BH1, resides in a binary system whose other member is a sunlike star.
That star is about as far from its companion black hole as Earth is from the sun, which makes Gaia BH1 very special indeed.
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That's about twice as close as the previous proximity champ.
The newfound object, a stellar-mass black hole called Gaia BH1, resides in a binary system whose other member is a sunlike star.
That star is about as far from its companion black hole as Earth is from the sun, which makes Gaia BH1 very special indeed.
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