Astronomers have a new candidate in their search for the nearest black hole to Earth. It's about 1,000 light-years away, or roughly 9.5 thousand, million, million km, in the Constellation Telescopium.

The finding suggests the presence of an elusive black hole which may be the closest one to Earth. The star cluster, Omega Centauri, is a collection of around 10 million stars, visible as a smudge ...