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Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. This observation allowed the research team to estimate that the nearest isolated black hole in relation to Earth could be only 80 light-years away. The black hole is 5,000 light years away, located in a spiral arm of the Milky Way galaxy called Carina-Sagittarius. The detection was made after dedicating six years to observations – and astronomers were even able to make a precise mass measurement of the extreme cosmic object. Now, researchers believe they have detected such an object. By rights, there should be a lot of roving black holes known to scientists, but they are practically invisible in space and therefore very difficult to uncover.Īstronomers believe that 100 million free-floating black holes roam our galaxy. Sometimes, the explosion may send the black hole into motion, hurtling across the galaxy like a pinball. When stars massive enough to dwarf our sun die, they explode in a supernova and the remaining core is crushed by its own gravity, forming a black hole. Black hole wandering Milky Way galaxy spied by Hubble