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Home News Science & Astronomy rtwork depicting a tidal disruption event (TDE). TDEs are causes when a star passes close to a supermassive black hole and get torn apart by the gravity of the latter. The debris forms a fan-shaped pattern around the black hole before eventually falling in. (Image…

Home News An artist's impression of the strange star and black hole pair. (Image credit: International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/J. da Silva/Spaceengine/M. Zamani) Astronomers have discovered the nearest known black hole to Earth, and it’s twice as close as the previous record holder. The space-time singularity, named Gaia BH1, is 1,566 light-years…

        | Published: Tuesday, November 8, 2022, 14:04 Astronomers have discovered our newest celestial neighbor in the form of a massive black hole. The newly discovered black hole is ten times bigger than our Sun, and is located around 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus, The…

Black holes are awesome and powerful and can seem a bit scary thanks to their reputation for gravitational pulls so strong not even light can escape. So let's give a big welcome to Gaia BH1, the new closest black hole to Earth. It was hard to find, but a team…

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NSF NOIRLab In many science fiction movies, black holes are often the go-to way to plug plot holes and provide a quick deus ex machina when all seems lost for the space heroes. In the real world, we just watch them from a distance. But we keep finding closer ones.…

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Astronomers using the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, have discovered the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target of study…