Black Hole Location in Universe

**MOHANTHILAGARAJ** · December 15th, 2011, 04:24 AM

Where is the black hole located in universe? How far it is from earth? Thanks in advance!

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**MOHANTHILAGARAJ** · December 15th, 2011, 04:30 AM

Just now found this article which has an answer for my question

BBC News - Supermassive black hole will 'eat' gas cloud

**tridimity** · December 15th, 2011, 05:12 AM

Yep - A gas cloud on its way towards the supermassive black hole at the Galactic Centre

S. Gillessen, R. Genzel, T. K. Fritz, E. Quataert, C. Alig, A. Burkert, J. Cuadra, F. Eisenhauer, O. Pfuhl, K. Dodds-Eden, C. F. Gammie & T. Ott

Nature (2011) doi:10.1038/nature10652

**Strange** · December 15th, 2011, 07:10 AM

Originally Posted by MOHANTHILAGARAJ

Where is the black hole located in universe? How far it is from earth? Thanks in advance!

You say "the" black hole. That may just be a language thing but there is more that one. The first discovered was Cygnus X-1 (about 6,000 light years away). The nearest discovered so far is "only" about 1600 light years away Where is the Nearest Black Hole