We just found the closest ever black hole to Earth #shorts

Astronomers just discovered the closest stellar-mass black hole to Earth.

[gregwilliams]

What do you mean by dormant? I know what is meant by a volcano being dormant but a black hole 🤔

[casbot]

They should be called *Stealth Black Holes.*
It's a cool name that's actually accurate … and it'll scare the general public into not complaining about funding into detecting them.

[Luneytoon]

“In our backyard, 16m light years away”

[AnonymousFreakYT]

One thing about black holes - they don't "suck things in", they're just bodies of high mass. A "stellar mass" black hole means "it's the mass that a star could be" - which means it has the *EXACT SAME* gravitational pull as a star of the same size.

If our sun were to *blink* into a black hole of equal mass, the orbit of Earth wouldn't change. Spacecraft orbits, moon orbits, etc, wouldn't change. Even the Parker Solar Probe wouldn't be impacted (gravitationally) since it's orbit is already set.

Yeah, solar panels would stop working, so tons of spacecraft would stop working. But it would be due to loss of power, not anything gravitational.

[vikingskuld]

Einstein wrote a math paper in the 30s showing black holes cannot exist in the real universe lol. So I doubt it's a black hole

[Thecardinal]

I just love saying Super Massive Black Hole, thanks Muse

[johnh]

I can’t remember a population of black holes ever.😅

[shukfahid]

Black holes don’t go dormant.

Like hi. I’m a black hole. I’m going turn my gravity off for a while.

[Roan.bot.]

I would love to study this stuff but I have no idea where to start. All science is so cool.

[ghosttribedrift]

What if black holes were really gates ways for traveling

[lawrencekassab]

Can someone explain something to me, please? If a stellar object is discovered and is say five thousand light years away, that means it took five thousand years for the light to get here. So what we are seeing is the past. So that means every object ever recorded by a telescope was from the past, and we can never be sure if the object is still even there

[Dvin_lunrd]

Amazing content👏👌, I study Spacetime, Quantum Mechanics, and just Science in general on a daily basis. Our Universe is unbelievably fascinating, and it makes my heart happy to see people who enjoy studying our "reality" as much as I do.🙂😃

[Killryno]

There are gaps in our understanding of space and time. Using light years as a metric assures it. One light year? One year away? For light? Start there and tell us when you can understand even 2. Fin.

[marablack]

Imagine having to clear out our milky way and having to deal with a black holes lmao

[Killryno]

UGH! Only 1600 hundred light years? When people stop thinking one light year is only one year away reply. That’s a thugillion buginities away. Fight me.

[arno_grnfld]

People need to realise how freaking huge is a light-year and times that by 1600

[HER]

Wait WTF is a dormant black hole. I NEED ANSWERS!!!

[NAVEENCHAURASIYAA]

Well black hole are necessary after last short video i watched

[lasarith]

I don’t remember correctly if it’s within 5 lightyears before we’d feel the effects of a black hole near us .

[YoungGandalf]

It's going to destroy the Earth and we'll never even see it coming. 😲