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Looking through data from the @ESAGaia mission, scientists have uncovered a ‘sleeping giant’: a large black hole, 33 times the mass of our Sun, hiding less than 2000 light-years from Earth. This is the first time a black hole of stellar origin this big has been spotted in our… pic.twitter.com/GDDEVLWIkB
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ESA Gaia
ESAGaia
Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with estimated age of 11 Gyr: youtu.be/cU00B-6DeSQ #GaiaBH3 www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20240416
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ESO
ESO
ICYMI Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole yet discovered in the Milky Way — it's 33 times more massive than our Sun, as verified by ESO's #VLT & other observatories 🔭
Check out our quick video summary 👇 1/
#BiteSizedAstronomy
www.eso.org/public/videos/eso2408a/
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ESO
ESO
📣 Most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy found! 1/
Read more: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2408/ pic.twitter.com/A1nrde7T1p
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