RA 262.1712° · Dec -0.5810° · blackhole
24 more points to reach Anomaly.
Gaia BH1 is an epic black hole. It lies about 1,560 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation Oph.
Nothing is falling into it right now, so it gives off no light of its own at all. It was found purely by what its gravity does to everything nearby.
Look for Gaia BH1 in the constellation Oph.
Like any astronomical target, Gaia BH1 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.
Gaia BH1 scores 54 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the epic tier. Another 24 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, Dormant (nothing left to eat) and Among the nearest black holes known — 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.