The closest black hole to Earth doesn't actually exist

[Admin]

In a paper published today, an international team of researchers has disproved the existence of a black hole in HR 6819.

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[rod]

The reference paper indicates the angular resolution used is very tiny.

HR 6819 is a binary system with no black hole, https://www.aanda.org/articles/aa/full_html/2022/03/aa43004-21/aa43004-21.html, "The MUSE observations reveal no bright companion at large separations and the GRAVITY observations indicate the presence of a stellar companion at an angular separation of ∼1.2 mas that moves on the plane of the sky over a timescale compatible with the known spectroscopic 40-day period."

Folks, this is some angular resolution here. 1.2 mas is 0.001200 arcsecond size. My telescopes do well if they resolve to about 1.5 arcsecond angular size. Someone is using better equipment than I do

 

[Helio]

So what is now the closest blackhole?