When Stars Orbit Black Holes The image is an artist’s representation of GX 339-4, a “low-mass X-ray binary located about 26,000 light-years away in the constellation Ara.” The sun is no bigger than ours, but it orbits a black hole “estimated at 10 solar masses,” every 1.7 days. And four times in the past seven years, the sun and its black hole partner have had an explosive meeting. How Close Are We To Colonizing Space?
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