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First dormant black hole discovered, First Sun-like star in black hole binary system discovered: First detected via positional shifts of visible companion [19] [20] [21] 1986—2022 3,000 ly (2.8 × 10 16 km; 1.8 × 10 16 mi) V616 Monocerotis (A0620−00) 5.86 M ☉ (1.165 × 10 31 kg; 2.57 × 10 31 lb) Visible variable star X-ray binary system
Sagittarius A*, abbreviated as Sgr A* (/ ˈ s æ dʒ ˈ eɪ s t ɑːr / SADGE-AY-star [3]), is the supermassive black hole [4] [5] [6] at the Galactic Center of the Milky Way.Viewed from Earth, it is located near the border of the constellations Sagittarius and Scorpius, about 5.6° south of the ecliptic, [7] visually close to the Butterfly Cluster (M6) and Lambda Scorpii.
A black hole with the mass of a car would have a diameter of about 10 −24 m and take a nanosecond to evaporate, during which time it would briefly have a luminosity of more than 200 times that of the Sun. Lower-mass black holes are expected to evaporate even faster; for example, a black hole of mass 1 TeV/c 2 would take less than 10 −88 ...
The supermassive black hole Sagittarius A*, imaged by the Event Horizon Telescope [8] Astronomers now have evidence that there is a supermassive black hole at the center of the galaxy. [9] Sagittarius A* (abbreviated Sgr A*) is agreed to be the most plausible candidate for the location of this supermassive black hole.
With such high mass, TON 618 may fall into a proposed new classification of ultramassive black holes. [11] [12] A black hole of this mass has a Schwarzschild radius of 1,300 AU (about 390 billion km or 0.04 ly in diameter) which is more than 40 times the distance from Neptune to the Sun, and its event horizon is large enough to fit over 30 ...
Instead, it was discovered in 2009 that the density of the old stars peaks at a distance of roughly 0.5 parsec from Sgr A*, then falls inward: instead of a dense cluster, there is a "hole", or core, around the black hole. [52] Several suggestions have been put forward to explain this puzzling observation, but none is completely satisfactory.
Artist's rendering of the accretion disc in ULAS J1120+0641, a very distant quasar containing a supermassive black hole with a mass two billion times that of the Sun [1] The Chandra X-ray image is of the quasar PKS 1127-145, a highly luminous source of X-rays and visible light about 10 billion light-years from Earth.
The inferred orbits of stars around supermassive black hole candidate Sagittarius A* at the Milky Way's center are according to Gillessen et al. 2017, [3] with the exception of S2 which is from GRAVITY 2019, [4] S62 which is from Peißker et al. Jan 2020, [5] and S4711 up to S4715, which are also from Peißker et al., Aug 2020.