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The Discovery of The First Black Hole | NOVA | PBS

A young astronomer set out to study binary stars—and stumbled on something invisible, massive, and groundbreaking. In 1970, Paul Murdin noticed a star in the constellation Cygnus that appeared to orbit a massive invisible object. He later identified the unseen companion as one of the earliest known black holes.

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