RA 207.5697° · Dec -59.2390° · blackhole
8 more points to reach Epic.
Gaia BH2 is a rare black hole. It lies about 3,800 light-years from Earth and sits in the constellation Cen.
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 BH2 in the constellation Cen.
Like any astronomical target, Gaia BH2 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 BH2 scores 42 points on Spacedle's rarity scale, which places it in the rare tier. Another 8 points would lift it into a rarer tier.
That score comes from 4 science badges — Black hole, Distant (over 1,000 light-years), Stellar-mass black hole and Dormant (nothing left to eat) — 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.