The Webb Space Telescope has discovered the earliest known merger of black holes. These two gigantic black holes and their ...
Gaia BH3's significant mass suggests it originated from a metal-poor star, which is thought to lose less mass over its lifetime, thus resulting in more material to produce a larger black hole ...
The Milky Way has a big newfound black hole, and it lurks close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the motion of billions of stars in ...
Science writer Ben Skuse says the chance of a black hole destroying Earth is very unlikely. “This is because, at a distance, their gravitational pull is no more compelling than a star of the ...
Gaia BH3 is also the second-closest black hole to Earth that we know of; the closest black hole is dubbed Gaia BH1. Scientists uncovered the black hole thanks to its companion star, which ...
making it the second-closest known black hole to Earth. Named Gaia BH3, it has a mass that is nearly 33 times that of our sun, and it’s located 1,926 light-years away in the Aquila constellation ...