Where is the Nearest Black Hole? #Shorts

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Where is the nearest black hole to the Earth? The answer is around 1,500 light years from Earth, in the constellation of Ophiuchus, where we find Gaia BH1, a slumbering stellar mass black hole orbiting a binary star with striking similarities to the sun.

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