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• The black hole is tiny, only 40km in diameter
• It is not close enough to swallow anything, but it is warping the orbit of its nearest star
• Scientists estimate the black hole was violently born from a supernova 15 million years ago
• The new black hole is part of what used to be a three-star dance in a system called HR6819.
• The star QV Tel is magnitude 5.37 and 1120 light years away
• Studies using the 2.2m telescope at La Silla Observatory in Chile reveal the inner of the two visible stars to be orbiting an unseen object every 40 days.
• Presumed to be a black hole, this object has a likely mass of at least four times that or our Sun.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/2020-05-...-ever/12222154