Azelicus
Azelicus t1_iudi7fb wrote
Reply to comment by Aspy343 in A Monster Black Hole has Been Found Right in our Backyard (Astronomically Speaking) by joosth3
It's just your ordinary clickbait terminology. Few people would click an article titled "very small black hole lies about 375 times farther than our closest neighbor".
Azelicus t1_iuditlf wrote
Reply to comment by PigSkinPoppa in A Monster Black Hole has Been Found Right in our Backyard (Astronomically Speaking) by joosth3
You don't detect black holes in a single photo.
You either detect them by studying the orbit of a close stellar companion (which seems to orbit a massive, non visibile object) or the effect of the distortion they produce on light passing close to them (an effect called "gravitational lensing").
For those reasons, we can't usually detect small, single black holes, even relatively close to us.