Star-sucking vampire, not ‘closest black hole’ to Earth, found by astronomers - Sydney Morning Herald

Astronomers thought they had found the closest black hole to Earth. Upon closer inspection, they observed “stellar vampirism”.

A 2020 study proposed that this system contained what would have been the closest black hole to Earth - in a three-way marriage with one star orbiting near the black hole and the other orbiting far a… [+1886 chars]

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