Discovered in 2021, 'The Unicorn' is significant because it is considered one of the smallest and closest known black holes to Earth at the time of its discovery. It is classified as a "stellar-mass" black hole, formed from the collapse of a star, but its mass (estimated to be about three times the mass of the Sun) places it in a rare category of low-mass stellar black holes.
Unicorn' is the name of which space body that was recently discovered at 1,500 light-years away from the Earth ?
Asked in OPSC CS Prelims 2021 · Topic: Astronomy and Astrophysics Basics (Exoplanets: Detection Methods and Basic Properties)
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