An image of the Milky Way showing the location of two newly discovered black holes that are the closest to Earth yet found. (Image credit: ESA/Gaia/DPAC; CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO, CC BY-SA 3.0 IGO) ...

Dubbed Gaia BH1 and Gaia BH2, the two black holes are the closest to Earth of any discovered so far, according to ESA. Gaia BH1 lies a mere 1,560 light-years from our solar system towards the ...

The dormant black hole, dubbed Gaia BH1, sits 1,600 light-years away ... Here's what a black hole sounds like, according to NASA. Watch: First image captured of black hole in Milk Way ...

Photo Credit: NASA The event horizon isn’t a surface but a boundary containing all the black hole’s matter. The nearest black hole, Gaia BH1, is about 1,500 light-years away.

See where stellar black hole "Gaia BH1" is located in the Milky Way in this zoom in video. As seen in this animation, a "sun-like" star" is orbiting the black hole, according to the Max Planck ...

The closest black hole to us is around 1,500 light years away and is called Gaia BH1; Black holes spin, with the fastest known as GRS 1915+105, which clocks in at over 1,000 rotations per second.