Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times more massive than our sun. This black hole designated as Gaia-BH3 was observed with ...

Even what was until now the most massive stellar black hole known in our galaxy, Cygnus X-1, is only about 20 times the mass of the sun, "making this new 33-solar-mass observation exceptional ...

The average stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way is about 10 times heftier than the sun. Gaia-BH3 is located just 2,000 light years from Earth, making it the second-closest black hole to our ...

Stellar-mass black holes found at the heart of the Milky Way's largest star cluster. ScienceDaily . Retrieved June 11, 2025 from www.sciencedaily.com / releases / 2024 / 12 / 241209122749.htm ...

Astronomers have discovered a large stellar mass black hole that weighs 33 times the mass of the sun and is located just 2,000 light-years away. Skip to main content. Menu ...

A brilliant new class of cosmic explosions has been uncovered—so powerful they outshine anything scientists have ever seen.

Black hole debate settled? Stellar-mass black holes found at the heart of the Milky Way's largest star cluster . University of Surrey. Journal Astronomy and Astrophysics DOI 10.1051/0004-6361/ ...

A new University of Leicester study shows how the uncontrolled growth of a distant supermassive black hole (SMBH) is revealed ...

New evidence and properties of intermediate-mass black holes have been discovered with help from RIT researchers, as ...

The scientists studied a black hole system consisting of a stellar-mass black hole and a sun-like star orbiting each other. In this system, 5 or 6 jets occur over a period of about 20 days, making ...

A cluster of black holes is expected to form at the center of Omega Centauri as a result of stellar evolution. But astronomers thought that most of them would be ejected by slingshot interactions ...