around their common centre of mass. Astronomers have accidentally discovered the most massive stellar black hole ever detected in the Milky Way galaxy, according to a study published in Astronomy ...

Even the next most massive stellar black hole known in our galaxy, Cygnus X-1, only reaches 21 solar masses, making this new 33-solar-mass observation exceptional [1].

Just a few years ago, in a galaxy 848 million light-years away, astronomers witnessed something strange happen. The supermassive black hole (SMBH) at the center of this galaxy was chugging along ...

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This artist's impression shows the orbits of both the star ...

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This artist’s impression shows the orbits of both the star ...

This is the supermassive black hole at the centre of our galaxy as we have never seen it before. The image reveals the swirling magnetic fields around Sagittarius A* (Sgr A*) and hints that it may ...

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 ...

“From these gravitational wave measurements, we should be expecting to see such black holes in our own galaxy, but we hadn’t until now,” says Seabroke. And this should just be the beginni ...

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 ...