A fascinating new find in Space as astronomers reveal they’ve found the closest Black hole to earth ever recorded

Roughly about 1,500 light years away from earth and about 10 miles larger than the sun — sits a Black hole that has just been discovered. This is fascinating because most if not all previous detections of such have largely been refuted or outright disproven at some point.

“While there have been many claimed detections of systems like this, almost all these discoveries have subsequently been refuted,” study lead author Kareem El-Badry, of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics in Massachusetts and the Max Planck Institute for Astronomy in Germany, said in a statement (opens in new tab). “This is the first unambiguous detection of a sunlike star in a wide orbit around a stellar-mass black hole in our galaxy.”

In total astronomers believe our galaxy, the Milky Way galaxy, probably harbours about 100 million of these things but they are often very hard to detect due to their small but terrifying presence.