A Monster Black Hole Has Been Discovered Nearby Silently Minding Its Business

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Black holes are among the most awesome and mysterious objects in the known Universe.

Because of its mass and relative proximity, this black hole presents opportunities for astrophysicists.

To find the black hole, Dr. Chakrabarti and her team analyzed data from the Gaia DR3, which included information on nearly 200,000 binary stars observed by the European Space Agency's Interacting black holes are typically easier to observe in visible light because they are in tighter orbits and pull material from their stellar companions. This material form a torus-shaped accretion disk around the black hole that is accelerated to relativistic velocities , becoming highly energetic and emitting X-ray radiation.

 

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How did these non-interacting black holes get free from their planetary systems I think the answer to that may shed light on many questions

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