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Loading contentA stellar-mass black hole of about nine solar masses in a binary system in Cygnus, and one of the nearest black holes with a precisely measured distance from radio parallax. Normally quiet, it erupted in a dramatic X-ray and radio outburst in June 2015 — a nearby microquasar caught devouring gas from its companion.
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