Gemini North Telescope helps Astronomers Discover Closest Black Hole to Earth In Our Cosmic Backyard

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Enami TV News: Observations by Gemini North, one of the twin telescopes of the International Gemini Observatory, operated by NSF’s NOIRLab, were crucial to constraining the orbital motion and hence masses of the two components in the binary system, allowing the team to identify the central body as a black hole roughly 10 times as massive as our Sun.

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