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Gaia BH3 black hole
February 11 , 2025
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- Astronomers have discovered a gigantic black hole named Gaia BH3 hiding close to the earth, the third of its kind.
- BH3’s 33 solar masses easily surpass Cygnus X-1, the galaxy’s prevailing heavyweight, by 12 solar masses.
- Gaia BH3 is located about 2,000 light years away in the constellation Aquila.
- All three were discovered by the European Space Agency’s Gaia telescope.
- The 2020 Nobel Prize in Physics was awarded for confirming black hole formation as a key prediction of general theory of relativity.
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