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One of the first known black holes is more massive than once thought
By Jon Fingas
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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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ESO
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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
📣 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
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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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