RA 288.7981° · Dec 10.9458° · blackhole
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GRS 1915+105 is an epic black hole. It lies about 28,000 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation Aql.
Gas spiralling in is squeezed and heated to millions of degrees before it falls, so the disc around it blazes brighter than anything else in the neighbourhood.
Look for GRS 1915+105 in the constellation Aql.
Like any astronomical target, GRS 1915+105 is best seen from a dark site away from city lights, and when it is above the horizon depends on your latitude and the time of year. The visibility panel above works out tonight's viewing window for your saved location.
GRS 1915+105 scores 74 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 4 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 6 science badges — Black hole, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Stellar-mass black hole, X-ray binary: stripping a living star, Spinning near the limit and Firing a relativistic jet — each earned for a real, measurable property of the object. Rarity on Spacedle is never random: the more remarkable an object's astrophysics, the more badges it collects, the higher it scores, and the rarer it ranks.