With a mass a staggering 33 times greater than the Sun, this stellar black hole is the most massive ever detected within our Milky Way galaxy. The colossal black hole, named Gaia BH3, was stumbled ...

An international team of astronomers has identified the most massive black hole known to exist within a binary star system in our Milky Way galaxy. This extraordinary black hole challenges current ...

Caltech’s Katie Bouman explains how the Event Horizon Telescope Collaboration captured the first imager of the Sagittarius A* Supermassive black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy - Milky ...

and the most massive stellar mass black holes known in our galaxy tend to be up to 20 times the mass of the sun. Recently, though, astronomers have discovered a much larger stellar mass black hole ...

ESA’s Gaia mission has uncovered a massive dormant black hole in our galaxy, revealing new insights into the formation of stellar-mass black holes and setting the stage for future astronomical ...

says Berry Holl excitedly. The orbits of the three black holes discovered by Gaia. A record-holder in the Galaxy The discovery of Gaia BH3 is very exciting because of its mass. Until now, black holes ...

The newly discovered black hole is the largest stellar black hole ever found in our galaxy, and it's in Earth's celestial backyard. The object in question has been dubbed Gaia BH3, recognizing the ...

which is building a 3D map of our galaxy, something unusual caught their attention: a wobbling star some 1,926 light-years away. The object’s curious motion indicated that a large black hole ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called “sleeping giant,” named Gaia BH3 ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called “sleeping giant,” named Gaia BH3 ...

Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space. The so-called “sleeping giant,” named Gaia BH3 ...

The biggest stellar black hole ever seen in the Milky Way galaxy has just been discovered by a collaboration of astronomers — and it's the second-closest one to us, parked just 2,000 light-years ...