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Astronomers spot a massive ‘sleeping giant’ black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth

Named Gaia BH3, it has a mass that is nearly 33 times that of our sun, and it’s located 1,926 light-years away in the Aquila constellation, making it the second-closest known black hole to Earth.

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