V616 Mon
- Type
- Black hole
- Companion
- Orange main sequence
- Diameter
- 40 miles
- Mass
- 10 solar masses
- Orbit Time
- 7 hours 45 minutes
- Temperature
- 33,000 K (59,000 °F)
- Distance from Earth
- 3,300 light years
- Discovery Date
- 1986
- V616 Mon is one of the closest black holes we know about, at just over three thousand light years. It orbits a nearby orange star, and was detected in 1986.
- Black holes are super dense and heavy stars, in fact, the core or center of the stars that survive a supernova explosion.
- Draw The orange K star and the black hole of V616 Mon.
- Located in
- Monoceros constellation
- V616 Mon is pulling gas from the nearby orange star, causing it to form an accretion disk of gas and matter in orbit around the black hole.
- The black hole and orange star orbit each other in less than six hours.
- This black hole is 10 times the weight of our sun, and was identified as a black hole in 1986.
- The star system emitted a very high X-Ray burst in 1975, but it was a decade before they fully understood what it meant.
