How far away is the nearest known system, as of 2022, that astronomers are reasonably confident contains a black hole?

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1,560 light years
The system is known as Gaia BH1, a binary system consisting of a G-type main-sequence star and a likely stellar-mass black hole.

answer 2 days ago by Balwinder

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