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    ESO instrument finds Closest Black Hole to Earth

    May 7, 2020, Categories  Astronomy/Space

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    A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system that can be seen with the naked eye. The team found evidence for the invisible object by tracking its two companion stars using the MPG/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. They say this system could just be the tip of the iceberg, as many more similar black holes could be found in the future.

    Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye...

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    A surprisingly Big Black Hole might have Swallowed a Star from the Inside Out, and scientists are baffled

    December 2, 2019, Categories  Astronomy/Space

    A recently discovered black hole – found by the way it makes a nearby star wobble – is hard to square with our understanding of how these dark cosmic objects form. Credit: NAOC, Chinese Academy of Sciences

    About 15,000 light years away, in a distant spiral arm of the Milky Way, there is a black hole about 70 times as heavy as the Sun. The black hole seems too big to be the product of a single star collapsing, which poses questions for our theories of how black holes form.

    Our team, led by Professor Jifeng Liu at the National Astronomical Observatories, Chinese Academy of Sciences, has dubbed the mysterious object LB-1.

    Astronomers estimate that our galaxy alone contains about 100 million black holes, created when massive stars have collapsed over the past 13 billion years.

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