Scientists at Ohio State University have discovered a record-breaking black hole. It is both one of the smallest black holes ever detected and the closest to Earth (1,500 light-years away and still inside the Milky Way galaxy). “When we looked at the data, this black hole — the Unicorn — just popped out,” lead author Tharindu Jayasinghe, a doctoral student in astronomy at The Ohio State University, said in a statement. Black holes cannot be seen, of course, but they can be detected by their corresponding stars. This black hole, dubbed the Unicorn because it is so rare and because it is located in the constellation Monoceros — “The Unicorn," is only about three times the mass of our sun and is a companion to a red giant star.