Where is the closest black hole found yet? Fly into Gaia BH1's position
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See where stellar black hole "Gaia BH1" is located in the Milky Way in this zoom in video. As seen in this animation, a "sun-like" star" is orbiting the black hole, according to the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy.
Full Story: https://www.space.com/closest-black-hole-to-earth-gaia-mission
The black hole is about 10 times more massive than our sun and lurks just 1,560 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.
Credit: Credit: T. Müller (MPIA), PanSTARRS DR1 (K. C. Chambers et al. 2016), ESA/Gaia/DPAC (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)
Full Story: https://www.space.com/closest-black-hole-to-earth-gaia-mission
The black hole is about 10 times more massive than our sun and lurks just 1,560 light-years from Earth, a new study reports.
Credit: Credit: T. Müller (MPIA), PanSTARRS DR1 (K. C. Chambers et al. 2016), ESA/Gaia/DPAC (CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO)