If you’re reading this from within the southern hemisphere – like Chile – after that you will not even need a telescope to see the celebrities captured in the black hole’s system.

The plan was to browse for double star systems – ones with 2 sunlight – to try to much better recognize them, yet they found the black opening lurking silently in there, entirely obscure.

Their paper, labelled A naked-eye three-way system with a non-accreting black opening in the inner binary, is released in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.

This could just be ‘the tip of the iceberg’ as far as existentially terrifying space furniture is concerned.

This particular one lies just 1,000 light years from Earth, and was spotted by the good folks over at the European Southern Observatory’s facility in – confusingly – Chile.

If you’re reading this from within the southern hemisphere – like Chile – then you won’t even need a telescope to see the stars caught in the black hole’s system.

You’ll just need a clear dark night to stare into this particular abyss.

Petr Hadrava, who is the co-author of the study and a Emeritus Scientist at the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic in Prague, said: “We were totally surprised when we realised that this is the first stellar system with a black hole that can be seen with the unaided eye.”

Well, don’t sound so happy about it, mate.

The plan was to search for double star systems – ones with two suns – to attempt to better understand them, but they discovered the black hole lurking silently in there, completely undiscovered.

This one in particular is one of the first that’s been observed that is totally black because it doesn’t interact violently with the environment that it’s in.

So, while they couldn’t see it because it doesn’t give off any light, they know it must be there because of the effect it is having on one of the stars in that system.

ESO scientist and the leader of the research, Thomas Rivinius, said: “An invisible object with a mass at least four times that of the Sun can only be a black hole.”

He added: “There must be hundreds of millions of black holes out there, but we know about only very few.

“Knowing what to look for should put us in a better position to find them.”

Their paper, titled A naked-eye triple system with a non-accreting black hole in the inner binary, is published in the Astronomy & Astrophysics journal.