black hole close to earth

Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth. Two astrophysicists at the Center for Astrophysics Harvard & Smithsonian have suggested a way to observe what could be the second-closest supermassive black hole to Earth: a behemoth 3 million times the mass of the Sun, hosted by the dwarf galaxy Leo I.The supermassive black hole, labeled Leo I*, was first proposed by an independent team of…

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…

Researchers' recent observations of a black hole called Cygnus X-1 reveal new details about the configuration of hot matter in the region . The first observations of a mass-accreting black hole from the Imaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) mission reveal new details about the configuration of extremely hot matter in the region immediately surrounding it. Researchers are using measurements of the polarization of X-rays to test and refine models that describe how black holes swallow matter, becoming some of the…