'This is the nearest known black hole by a factor of three...'
, it's ten times bigger than our Sun, and sitting roughly 1,600 light years away from our Pale Blue Dot in the constellation Ophiuchus, it's the closest to our home planet ever discovered.
But before you get at all NIMBY about the guy, don't worry. It's currently slumbering, lying dormant in a binary star system called GAIA BH1. And according to its discoverers — a team led by Kareem El-Badry, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics — its existence might suggest that of many others, sleeping in similar star systems.
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