• Question: how many black holes have your seen in your life in space today

    Asked by 725sptm26 to Ollie, Guy on 14 Mar 2018.
    • Photo: Alexander Burke

      Alexander Burke answered on 14 Mar 2018:


      Zero because they are invisible to the human eye. Black holes have such immense gravity that their light will never reach us which means we will never see them! To study black holes you don’t need to “see” them… you just need to understand how they act astrophysical objects around them!

    • Photo: Guy Rixon

      Guy Rixon answered on 14 Mar 2018:


      In the Gaia data, about 185 systems studied by my team might have something to do with a black hole.

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