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[ad_1] Gaia BH1 is a recently discovered black hole and researchers believe that it is the closest black hole to the Earth. Black holes have always perplexed humans. They are the opposite of whatever we see. In simple terms, a black hole is a region in space where the gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from it. And still we only have surface level understanding of black holes. And the main reason behind that is that it is extremely difficult to spot a black hole as you cannot see it normally. As a black hole devours light, it blends in with the darkness of space. The only time we can actually see it is when it interacts with the space around it. But this might be changing soon because a group of researchers has discovered the closest black hole to the Earth.The resear...

[ad_1] Closest known black hole to Earth is just 1600 light-years away. Astronomers have discovered the closest known black hole to Earth, just 1,600 light-years away. Scientists reported Friday that this black hole is 10 times more massive than our sun. And it's three times closer than the previous record-holder. It was identified by observing the motion of its companion star, which orbits the black hole at about the same distance as Earth orbits the sun. The black hole was initially identified using the European Space Agency's Gaia spacecraft, said Kareem El-Badry of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics. El-Badry and his team followed up with the International Gemini Observatory in Hawaii to confirm their findings, which were published in Monthly Notices of the Ro...

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