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  2. List of nearest known black holes - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of known black holes that are close to the Solar System. It is thought that most black holes are solitary, but black holes in binary or larger systems are much easier to detect. [1] Solitary black holes can generally only be detected by measuring their gravitational distortion of the light from more

  3. Cygnus X-1 - Wikipedia

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    Cygnus X-1 (abbreviated Cyg X-1) [11] is a galactic X-ray source in the constellation Cygnus and was the first such source widely accepted to be a black hole. [12] [13] It was discovered in 1964 during a rocket flight and is one of the strongest X-ray sources detectable from Earth, producing a peak X-ray flux density of 2.3 × 10 −23 W/(m 2 ⋅Hz) (2.3 × 10 3 jansky).

  4. List of black holes - Wikipedia

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    OJ 287 core black holes — a BL Lac object with a candidate binary supermassive black hole core system [23] PG 1302-102 – the first binary-cored quasar — a pair of supermassive black holes at the core of this quasar [24] [25] SDSS J120136.02+300305.5 core black holes — a pair of supermassive black holes at the centre of this galaxy [26]

  5. Oldest black hole discovered dating back to 470 million years ...

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    Scientists have discovered the oldest black hole yet, a cosmic beast formed a mere 470 million years after the Big Bang. ... That is nowhere near the miniscule ratio of the black holes in our ...

  6. Record-breaking black hole jets discovered in faraway galaxy

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    Astronomers say they have discovered the longest pair of black hole jets ever seen in the sky coming from a galaxy far, far away. The record-breaking eruptions span 23 million light years from end ...

  7. NGC 6946 - Wikipedia

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    Its distance from Earth is about 25.2 million light-years or 7.72 megaparsecs, [2] similar to the distance of M101 (NGC 5457) in the constellation Ursa Major. [5] Both were once considered to be part of the Local Group, [6] but are now known to be among the dozen bright spiral galaxies near the Milky Way but beyond the confines of the Local ...

  8. Timeline of black hole physics - Wikipedia

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    1972 — Jacob Bekenstein suggests that black holes have an entropy proportional to their surface area due to information loss effects; 1974 — Stephen Hawking applies quantum field theory to black hole spacetimes and shows that black holes will radiate particles with a black-body spectrum which can cause black hole evaporation

  9. List of most massive black holes - Wikipedia

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    The supermassive black hole at the core of Messier 87, here shown by an image by the Event Horizon Telescope, is among the black holes in this list. This is an ordered list of the most massive black holes so far discovered (and probable candidates), measured in units of solar masses (M ☉), approximately 2 × 10 30 kilograms.