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Black Hole 'Gaia BH1'
November 11 , 2022
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- Astronomers has discovered the closest-known Black Hole to Earth using the International Gemini Observatory.
- The dormant black hole, dubbed Gaia BH1, sits 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus.
- The black hole weighs 10 times the mass of our sun.
- It is three times closer to Earth than the previous record-holder, an X-ray pair in the constellation of the Monoceros.
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