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Astronomers discover smallest black hole lurking in Milky Way

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Astronomers led by Song Wang from the Chinese Academy of Sciences, have discovered an unusual celestial phenomenon, potentially the smallest black hole ever detected. The discovery was made approximately 5,825 light-years away from Earth, where a red giant star was observed moving in a slow orbital dance with an invisible binary companion. The team named this intriguing find as G3425.