A team of astronomers has discovered a black hole, lying 1,000 light-years from Earth, making it the closest black hole to our solar system ever found. This black hole is so close that two companion stars whirling around the invisible object can be observed with the naked eye on a dark, clear sky. The newly spotted black hole, which measures some 40 kilometers (25 miles) in diameter, is placed in the constellation of Telescopium, in the Southern Hemisphere. Astronomers from ESO and other institutes discovered it using a 2.2-meter telescope at the European Southern Observatory’s La Silla Observatory in Chile. Astronomers believe that the discovery of this black hole will help them to uncover many hidden black holes in the Milky Way.
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