Astronomers Find Largest Stellar Black Hole in Our Galaxy

ExtremeTech— And it's extremely close to Earth.

TheBlaze—Our galaxy's largest black hole has been discovered close to Earth: Report. The Debrief recently reported that scientists from the European Space Agency's Gaia mission have located a black hole with a mass of 33 solar masses, which makes it the largest black hole of stellar origin ever discovered in the Milky Way galaxy.The discovery, which was found after Gaia's fourth data release, could shed new light on the formation and prevalence of black holes throughout the known universe.The black hole, which has been named Gaia BH3, is part of a binary system located around...

TechSpot—Astronomers detected the most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way. European astronomers have confirmed the existence of Gaia BH3, a previously unknown stellar black hole. BH3 is the most massive stellar black hole discovered in the Milky Way so far and the second largest black hole in the galaxy after the supermassive monster known as Sagittarius A .Read Entire Article

6abc Philadelphia—Astronomers spot black hole less than 2,000 light-years from Earth. Astronomers have spotted the most massive known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy after detecting an unusual wobble in space.