{"id":116619,"date":"2020-12-03T20:23:17","date_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/astronomers-discover-hidden-black-hole-near-earth-closest-ever-found-to-our-solar-system"},"modified":"2020-12-03T20:23:17","modified_gmt":"2020-12-04T04:23:17","slug":"astronomers-discover-hidden-black-hole-near-earth-closest-ever-found-to-our-solar-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2020\/12\/astronomers-discover-hidden-black-hole-near-earth-closest-ever-found-to-our-solar-system","title":{"rendered":"Astronomers Discover Hidden Black Hole \u201cNear\u201d Earth \u2013 Closest Ever Found to Our Solar System"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/J5UmEdWpEKs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>An antimatter laser can turn matter in the black hole into energy.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar System than any other found to date and forms part of a triple system that can be seen with the naked eye. The team found evidence for the invisible object by tracking its two companion stars using the MPG\/ESO 2.2-metre telescope at ESO\u2019s La Silla Observatory in Chile. They say this system could just be the tip of the iceberg, as many more similar black holes could be found in the future.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe were totally surprised when we realized that this is the first stellar system with a black hole that can be seen with the unaided eye,\u201d says Petr Hadrava, Emeritus Scientist at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague and co-author of the research. Located in the constellation of Telescopium, the system is so close to us that its stars can be viewed from the southern hemisphere on a dark, clear night without binoculars or a telescope. \u201cThis system contains the nearest black hole to Earth that we know of,\u201d says ESO scientist Thomas Rivinius, who led the study published today (May 6, 2020) in <em>Astronomy &amp; Astrophysics<\/em>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An antimatter laser can turn matter in the black hole into energy. Invisible object has two companion stars visible to the naked eye. A team of astronomers from the European Southern Observatory (ESO) and other institutes has discovered a black hole lying just 1000 light-years from Earth. The black hole is closer to our Solar [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":513,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-116619","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-futurism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116619","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/513"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116619"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116619\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116619"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116619"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116619"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}