2024

New Black Hole discovered with ESA’s Gaia satellite

Frémat, Y. ; Lobel, A. ; Blomme, R. ; Pauwels, T.


Released on 2024-04-16

Abstract: Today the European Space Agency (ESA) and the Gaia collaboration teams reveal the discovery of a high-mass stellar black hole of 33 times our Sun’s mass in the Milky Way. The Royal Observatory of Belgium contributed to this discovery thanks to the radial velocity data it helped to process.

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