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European Space Agency
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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
📣 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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Daniel Fischer @cosmos4u@scicomm.xyz
cosmos4u
Discovery of a dormant 33 solar-mass black hole in pre-release Gaia astrometry: www.aanda.org/component/article?access=doi&doi=10.1051/0004-6361/202449763 -> Most massive stellar #BlackHole in our galaxy found: www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow_20240416 and www.eso.org/public/news/eso2408/ and www.youtube.com/watch?v=cU00B-6DeSQ&ab_channel=ESAGaiaMission
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