It's still 1560 light years away. It's a binary system that includes a star very similar to our Sun and a black hole, and apparently they choose to live together peacefully, not exchanging mass. Black holes are hard to detect, let alone dormant black holes like this one, even though there are hundreds of millions of them in our galaxy alone. We only managed to detect a couple dozen.
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