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Astronomers have discovered a recordbreaking black hole in the Milky Way galaxy, and it's surprisingly close to us. This black hole has a mass 33 times greater than our Sun, setting a new record for the largest black hole of stellar origin found in our galaxy. It's located about 1900 lightyears away, making it the second nearest stellar mass black hole to Earth. This discovery was made possible through 11 years of data collected by the Gaia Mission, an astronomical survey conducted by the European Space Agency. The black hole is a companion to a Sunlike star in a binary system named Gaia BH3.

So, how was this black hole discovered in the first place? How could this discovery open Pandora's Box in the field of astrophysics? Finally, and most importantly, what does the discovery of a black hole in our cosmic backyard mean for astronomers?

REFERENCES:

Discovery of a dormant 33 solarmass black hole in prerelease Gaia astrometry, Panuzzo et al (2024), The Astrophysical Journal https://bit.ly/4c0A0gG

Evidence for a Distant Giant Planet in the Solar System, Batygin and Brown (2016), Astronomy and Astrophysics https://bit.ly/3XQh2oR

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