Astronomers find truly black black hole lurking in a nearby star system
Scott Sutherland
mercredi, 6 mai 2020 à 17:30 - This discovery of a black hole hiding in a star system so close to us was quite the surprise for astronomers.
An international team of astronomers has located the closest known black hole to Earth, hidden in a star system just 1,000 light-years away. The discovery of this nearby black hole was not only a welcome surprise, but it may help astronomers to find more of these lurking out in space.
It may come as quite the surprise to stargazers in the southern hemisphere, but a black hole has been hiding in plain view to them, every night.
2020: A Year in Space
Despite the global pandemic that has brought much of the world to a grinding halt, space scientists have continued to push the boundaries of our knowledge throughout 2020.
It’s difficult to mention the year 2020 without referencing COVID-19, but as more human beings than ever before were wishing they could take a break from the surface of the planet, space research continued to push our knowledge of the stars. Whilst much of the scientific community was consumed with combating a pandemic, physicists, astronomers, cosmologists, and other researchers were further pushing our understanding of space and the objects which dwell there.