'This is the kind of discovery you make once in your research life,' researcher Pasquale Panuzzo said.
In a record-breaking discovery, scientists have found the largest yet stellar black hole in our galaxy.The black hole—named Gaia BH3—is thought to be around 33 times as massive as our sun, making it leagues larger than the previous record-holder, Cygnus X-1, which was 21 times the sun's mass.
Using the European Southern Observatory's Very Large Telescope and other observatories, astronomers verified the black hole's mass and determined that it was a staggering 33 times the sun's mass.Most other stellar black holes in our galaxy don't exceed 10 times the mass of our sun, making Gaia BH3 a rare find.
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