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 ...

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 ...

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.

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.