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Astronomers Find a Black Hole in Our Cosmic Back Yard

Por: The New York Times Science November 05, 2022

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Almost but not quite in time for Halloween, astronomers announced on Friday that they had discovered . It is a biggie, a shell of yawning emptiness 10 times as massive as the sun, orbiting as far from its own star as the Earth is from ours.Not to worry, however: This black hole is 1,600 light-years away, in the constellation Ophiuchus; the next nearest known black hole is about 3,000 light-years away in the constellation Monoceros. What sets... + full article



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