But in the past two decades, new types of black holes have been seen and astronomers are beginning to understand how they form. Called supermassive black holes, they have been found at the center of pretty much every galaxy and are a hundred thousand to a billion times the mass of our sun.

Though our solar system and the movement of its planets appear relatively sedate, there are many things that could upset the balance. Anything with enough mass that got close enough could disrupt planetary orbits.

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A black hole jet from the Centaurus A galaxy is "hitting something along its path," that is baffling astronomers. The Chandra X-ray Telescop team takes you on a tour of the system. Credit: NASA/CXC/A.

In 2020, astronomers identified a nearby star system that appeared to contain something phenomenal: the closest black hole to Earth! Now, new research from some of those same astronomers suggests that they may have been deceived by a cosmic illusion.

"Theories involving substantial formation of stars prior to or together with the black hole formation and growth are very unlikely."

The Hubble Space Telescope has found evidence of a "wandering" black hole about 5000 light years away in the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers estimate that there could be 100 million black holes wandering around our galaxy.

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