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Thursday, 17 November 2016

List of nearest black holes

List of nearest black holes.

This list contains all known black holes relatively near the Solar System (within our Milky Way galaxy). To make it easier to compare distances - our nearest star aside from the Sun - Proxima Centauri is about 4.24 light years away and our Milky Way galaxy is 100,000 light years in diameter.

List:~

        #        Distance
Light-years (±err)
Distance
kiloparsecs (±err)
                                                           Designation                                                   Stellarclass                        Epoch J2000.0 Solar mass
(Sun = 1)
Discovery date Notes and additional
references
System Component Right ascension Declination                               System                                  Component
1 2,800 0.858 A0620-00 (V616 Mon) A BH

11.0±1.9 binary star system
orbit t = 7.75 hr
Black hole candidate
B K approximately 0.5 solar masses
2 6,100 ± 400 1.90 ± 0.1 Cygnus X-1 (Cyg X-1) Cyg X-1 BH 19h 58m 21.67595s +35° 12′ 05.7783″ 15±1 April-May 1971 binary star system
orbit t = 5.6 d
HDE 226868 O 20-40
3 7,800 ± 460 2.39±0.14 V404 Cygni A BH 20h 24m 03.83s +33° 52′ 02.2″ 12±3 22 May 1989 binary star system
orbit t = 6.5 d
The first black hole to have an accurate parallax measurement
for its distance from our solar system
B G slightly smaller than the Sun late G or early K

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