The average stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way is about 10 times heftier than the sun. Gaia-BH3 is located just 2,000 light years from Earth, making it the second-closest black hole to our ...

BH3 is also the largest black hole of stellar origin ever spotted within the Milky Way, astronomers said.. The discovery came as scientists were analyzing data as part of the the agency's Gaia ...

Scientists have discovered an enormous stellar-mass black hole in our Milky Way galaxy that’s roughly 33 times more massive than our sun. This black hole designated as Gaia-BH3 was observed with ...

Astronomers with the European Space Agency's (ESA) Gaia mission have discovered the most massive stellar black hole known in the Milky Way Galaxy, weighing in at 33 times the mass of our Sun ...

Just last week, for instance, the Hayden Planetarium at the American Museum of Natural History (AMNH) in New York City ...

Stellar speeds offer a way to weigh a galaxy; the gravitational force each particular star feels depends on the galaxy’s total mass. A Gaia-derived study released on September 27 in the journal ...

The model trains on high-quality spectroscopic data from smaller stellar surveys and then applies this learning to Gaia's large third data release (DR3), extracting key stellar parameters using ...

Gaia: Largest-ever 3-D Stellar Map Captures One Billion Stars, Traces Shape of Milky Way Published Apr 25, 2018 at 8:03 AM EDT Updated Apr 25, 2018 at 10:55 AM EDT By ...

The Milky Way just got a little more crowded. The European Space Agency’s Gaia spacecraft has mapped more than a billion stars in the galaxy with unprecedented accuracy and detail — and it has ...

The European Space Agency will host a media briefing on Monday, June 13, beginning at 4 a.m. EDT (0800 GMT) to share the latest data from its Milky Way-charting Gaia mission. You can watch the ...