Zoom-in to Nearest Black Hole to Earth
Zoom-in to the closest-known black hole to Earth. This is the first unambiguous detection of a dormant stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way. Its close proximity to Earth, a mere 1600 light-years away, offers an intriguing target of study to advance our understanding of the evolution of binary systems.
Credit:International Gemini Observatory/NOIRLab/NSF/AURA/Digitized Sky Survey 2/N. Bartmann/D. De Martin
About the Video
| Id: | noirlab2227c |
| Release date: | Nov. 4, 2022, 2 a.m. |
| Related releases: | noirlab2227 |
| Duration: | 57 s |
| Frame rate: | 29.97 |
