Black Hole Gaia BH3 Estimated to be 33 Times Heavier than Mass of Our Sun
An international team of researchers, with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) led by Professor (emeritus) Tsevi Mazeh of TAU’s Raymond and Beverly Sackler School of Physics and Astronomy, have discovered a star which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun’s mass and lies 1,500 light-years away from Earth. The black hole, discovered using data from the European Gaia spacecraft, is more than three times heavier than the other known black holes in our galaxy. [Press Release]
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