The Closest Known Black Hole To Earth Has Been Spotted By Astronomers

Scientists reported Friday that this black hole is 10 times larger 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 the Earth orbits the sun.
The black hole was first 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 the International Gemini Observatory in Hawaii to confirm their findings, which were published in the Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society.
Researchers are unsure how the system formed in the Milky Way.  It is called Gaia BH1 and is located in the constellation Ophiuchus, the serpent.
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