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Does this Sumerian Tablet Describe a Black Hole?

Let's be honest. Sumerian translation for astronomical descriptions are very speculative and have low accuracy rate. So description of black holes is a bit of an overreach....

In the British Museum's basement sits a clay tablet from the library of Ashurbanipal. Catalog number K.2486. Excavated from Nineveh in 1851, it lists nine stars that vanished from the sky, bodies that should have been visible and weren't. Eight have modern explanations.

The ninth, called mul-an-shub-ba, the fallen sky-star, sits at coordinates near the galactic centre.

The Sumerian verb describing its disappearance translates as "poured out." Modern radio astronomy now knows that region holds thousands of stellar-mass black holes.

The Sumerians described a star whose light drained out of the sky four thousand years ago.

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