The HR6819 Black Hole





The nearest a Hole ever discovered by astronomers 

Scientists says that this Black Hole is the nearest Black Hole ever discovered and the most easily observable Black Hole in the night sky. This Black Hole is very very near to Earth about 1000 light years.

Astronomer of european southern observatory (ESO) have discovered a new Blach Hole from the planet Earth. It is located in the constillation Telescopium nearly to the constillation of saggitarius and it is just 1000 light years away from  Earth.The Black Hole is approximately 4.2 times the mass of the sun.



The name of the Black hole is HR 6819. A group of Astronomers discovered the HR 6819 black hole by using the 2.2-meter MPG / ESO telescope at ESO’s La Silla Observatory in Chile.     


An ESO Scientist, Thomas Rivinus who has led the project has said that an invisible object having mass at least 4 times that of the Sun can be nothing but a black hole.