Astronomers have apparently found the closest known black hole to Earth, a weirdly tiny object dubbed "The Unicorn" that lurks just 1,500 light-years from us.
The nickname has a double meaning. Not only does the black hole candidate reside in the constellation Monoceros ("the unicorn"), its incredibly low mass — about three times that of the sun — makes it nearly one of a kind.
A discovery team leading by Tharindu Jayasinghe, a Sri Lankan astronomy Ph.D. student at The Ohio State University, has analyzed the black hole.
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