V4641 Sagittarii

id: v4641-sagittarii-269-13506861
title: V4641 Sagittarii
text: V4641 Sagittarii is a variable X-ray binary star system in the constellation Sagittarius. It is the source of one of the fastest superluminal jets in the Milky Way galaxy. In 1999 a violent X-ray outburst revealed it to contain a black hole. At the time, it was considered to be the closest known black hole to Earth, at a distance of approximately 1,600 light-years (490 pc). Later observations showed it to be much farther away, reported in 2001 to be between 7.4 and 12.31 kpc, 6.2 kpc in 2014, an
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description: Binary star in the constellation Sagittarius
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date modified: 2022-10-30T02:11:08Z
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