World The closest black hole to Earth was found in a star system you can see with the naked eye May 7, 2020May 8, 2020 N'dea Yancey-Bragg, USA TODAY Comments Off on The closest black hole to Earth was found in a star system you can see with the naked eye Astronomers from the European Southern Observatory discovered a black hole just 1,000 light years away from Earth, the closest ever found.