Extreme object
Gaia BH1
Gaia BH1 is a black hole 1 560 light-years away, weighing 9.27 Suns.
The nearest known black hole, found in 2022 by the wobble of the Sun-like star that orbits it. It is quiet: nothing falls in.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Kind
- Black hole
- Distance
- 1 560 light-years
- Mass
- 9.27 Suns
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; a black hole has no shape to draw and a pulsar is far too small — the kind of thing, not this exact one.