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Astronomers at Ohio State University have discovered what they say is the closest-known black hole to Earth, 1,500 light-years away, dubbing it the Unicorn.
The nickname for the stellar-mass black hole serves as a double meaning because it resides in the constellation Monoceros, which is Greek for unicorn. The name was also given due to
its notably low mass for a black hole, which is still 3 times that of the sun in our solar system, making it essentially one of a kind. The most interesting thing is that it is probably the closest black hole, to the solar system, and it is also one of the smallest, if not the smallest black hole in the Milky Way that s been discovered, thus far, Tharindu Jayasinghe, a doctoral student in astronomy at Ohio State University, told the
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