Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a .

Gaia-BH1 has a mass around 9.6 times that of the sun, making it considerably smaller than this newly discovered black hole.

Gaia BH1 is dormant, 10 times more massive than our sun and located about 1,600 light-years away in the constellation Ophiuchus (the serpent-bearer).

So, Gaia BH2 might be farther from Earth than Gaia BH1, but the star’s stronger stream of particles made it a far better bet that we’d detect emission from accretion onto the black hole.

Gaia BH1 is just 1,560 light-years from our planet. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. The black hole record books have just ...

Gaia BH1 is the nearest black hole to Earth ever discovered — the next closest is around 3,200 light-years away.

The two closest black holes to Earth, named Gaia BH1 and BH2, may be part of a rare class of black holes never seen before, new research suggests.

Black holes are as dangerous as they are distant, so scientists set out to simulate one in a lab. What happened next would make Steven Hawking smile.

The dormant black hole, dubbed Gaia BH1, sits 1,600 light-years away – three times closer than the last black hole to hold the record.

The recently discovered black hole—named Gaia BH1—is three times closer to Earth than the previous record holder. Details about its discovery, as well as about the Sun-like star orbiting it ...

Two black holes larger than the sun found in Earth's 'cosmic backyard' Two newly discovered black holes called Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2 are residing in our “cosmic backyard.” ...

The answer is something like the newly discovered black hole-star binary system Gaia BH1, which contains the closest stellar-mass black hole to Earth ever discovered and a star orbiting it at an ...