Harvard-Smithsonian Center Astrophysics

It’s a gloomy preview of what will happen to Earth when our sun morphs into a red giant and gobbles the four inner planets in another 5 billion years.“If it’s any consolation, this will happen in about 5 billion years,”
Scientists reported Friday that this black hole is 10 times more massive than our sun. And it’s three times closer than the previous record-holder.