RA 275.0914° · Dec 7.1854° · blackhole
18 more points to reach Anomaly.
MAXI J1820+070 is an epic black hole. It lies about 9,600 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation Oph.
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 MAXI J1820+070 in the constellation Oph.
Like any astronomical target, MAXI J1820+070 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.
MAXI J1820+070 scores 60 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 18 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 5 science badges — Black hole, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Stellar-mass black hole, X-ray binary: stripping a living star 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.