found the black hole, known as Gaia-BH3, which is 33 times the mass of our Sun. Gaia-BH3 was not seen directly but inferred ...

In April 2024, the star-tracking space telescope Gaia discovered its third black hole. Not only is this black hole, known as "BH3," the second closest to Earth at just 2,000 light-years away (the ...

Gaia BH3 is situated 2,000 light years away from Earth in the Aquila constellation, as determined by Gaia's precise telescope measurements. Stellar black holes form from the collapse of massive ...

This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star and the black hole, dubbed Gaia BH3, around their common centre of mass. This wobbling was measured over several years with the ...

The dense stellar remnant would, if confirmed, be the closest known object to any black hole ... how black holes became so massive in the early universe Will Sullivan Called Gaia BH3, the dormant ...

The black hole, named Gaia BH3, was discovered "by chance" from data collected by the European Space Agency's Gaia mission, an astronomer from the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS ...

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes ... from data from the Gaia catalog (eDR3).

A fluffy cluster of stars spilling across the sky may have a secret hidden in its heart: a swarm of over 100 stellar-mass black holes. The star cluster in question is called Palomar ... Previously, ...