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There's a black hole lurking within 1,000 light years of Earth – and you can see stars circling it with the naked eye

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Re: A black hole we can nearly see?

Besides the distance from Earth, the other extremely unusual thing about this black hole is how dark it is leading boffins to speculate that there is no (or a minimal) accretion disk.

A Fosters for the boffins.

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