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Africa-Press – Mozambique. <\/strong><\/span>Scientists managed to locate the new black hole thanks to the data supplied by the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia mission. A massive black hole whose mass is around twelve times that of our Sun has been discovered in relative proximity to our Solar System.<\/p>\n

Found by a team of astronomers led by the University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH), the black hole appears to be located much closer to the Sun than other celestial bodies of its kind.<\/p>\n

\u201cIt is closer to the sun than any other known black hole, at a distance of 1,550 light years,\u201d said Dr. Sukanya Chakrabarti, physics professor at the UAH and lead author of the study detailing the black hole\u2019s discovery. \u201cSo, it\u2019s practically in our backyard.\u201d<\/p>\n

The \u201cmonster\u201d black hole, as the university\u2019s press release called it, was found after astronomers combed through the data of nearly 200,000 binary stars that was released by the European Space Agency\u2019s Gaia mission, following up on sources with spectrographic measurements from telescopes.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe pull of the black hole on the visible sun-like star can be determined from these spectroscopic measurements, which give us a line-of-sight velocity due to a Doppler shift,\u201d Chakrabarti said.<\/p>\n

The newly discovered black hole does not seem to interact with luminous stars, with scientists being forced to deduce its presence by gauging the motions of the visible star.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe majority of black holes in binary systems are in X-ray binaries \u2013 in other words, they are bright in X-rays due to some interaction with the black hole, often due to the black hole devouring the other star,\u201d Dr. Chakrabarti remarked. \u201cAs the stuff from the other star falls down this deep gravitational potential well, we can see X-rays.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cIn this case, we\u2019re looking at a monster black hole but it\u2019s on a long-period orbit of 185 days, or about half a year,\u201d she elaborated. \u201cIt\u2019s pretty far from the visible star and not making any advances toward it.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to the press release, the techniques the research team employed to find this black hole should apply to efforts to locate other non-interacting black hole systems.<\/p>\n

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