largest stellar mass black hole

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The largest stellar mass black hole ever discovered isn’t that far from Earth, but it’s not the closest.

In Dark Star, director John Carpenter’s debut full-length film, a sentient starship, a weird crew of astronauts, and a bomb going through a personal existential crisis are all on a mission to destroy unstable planets. It is named after the original term for what would later be called black holes. In 1783, theologian and scientist John Michell developed the concept of “dark stars,” which are stars with such strong gravitational pulls that they enviously cling to anything they come into