Astronomers discover most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way

Astronomers have identified the most massive black hole that formed from an exploding star to be discovered in the Milky Way galaxy.

The European Space Agency’s Gaia mission, involving UCL researchers, found the black hole, known as Gaia-BH3, which is 33 times the mass of our Sun and located relatively close to Earth at 2,000 light years away.

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[adrianwhyatt]

Let's hope we don't get sucked into a local blackhole any time soon! The world will not end until all those worthy of salvation have been saved. But this could conceivably form part of the end.

[lamarhenderson]

Based on mass and increasingly precise radius limits, astronomers have concluded that Sagittarius A* must be the central supermassive black hole of the Milky Way galaxy. The current value of its mass is 4.297±0.012 million solar masses.

This new one isn't even close, mass-wise.

[DS-zgym]

What you are witnessing is the awesome power of the Holy One and Great Spirit Consuming Fire that is everywhere whom birth Angels and God's humanity, world's and milkyway galaxy superclusters of stars thats neither male nor female 🌟 but germination of our universe! ⚫️✨️🔥.