Record-breaking stellar black hole found nearby | ESO News

Astronomers have found the most massive stellar black hole in our galaxy, thanks to the wobbling motion it induces on a companion star. This wobbling was measured over several years with the European Space Agency’s Gaia mission. Additional data from other telescopes, including ESO’s Very Large Telescope in Chile, confirmed that the mass of this black hole, dubbed Gaia BH3, is 33 times that of our Sun. The chemical composition of the companion star suggests that the black hole was formed after the collapse of a massive star with very few heavy elements, or metals, as predicted by theory. This video summarises the discovery.
For more details, check: www.eso.org/public/news/eso2408/
Credit:
ESO
Music: Stellardrone - Introspace.
Written by: L. Spillman, D. Curic, E. Reiriz Martínez.
Footage and photos: ESO, M. Kornmesser, L. Calçada, D. Gasparri, Space Engine (spaceengine.org)

[@ptonpc]

Amazing.

[@CarlieBoron]

3 xw Such a positive mood is contagious! 51

[@oker59]

i'll worry about Black Holes when there's one within a lightyear of me.. . .

[@haikalmiftah2529]

Even the closest neighbouring star is little above 4 light year.

[@CMONCMON007]

im scared now

[@Trolligi]

Nice!

[@karaz7477]

These are lenses as well as membranes.. they're not even a part of our 3d spacetime

[@rjung_ch]

Science just tops so many other subject matters. 👍💪✌

[@realhbk316]

Uh Oh...

[@imensonspionrona2117]

benign at best

[@joaocarlosrodriguesdasilva4238]

So we have two black holes on our neighborhood?

[@ESOobservatory]

Yes! Cosmic neighbourhood, though, we're safe :-)

[@rinti2241]

Yenileri de olacak , ortaya çıkacaktır... Genel olarak, bir kara deliğin menzili ortalama ne kadarlık mesafedir . Ne kadar mesafeden itibaren kendine doğru kuvvet başlar. Ve ne kadar mesafe kendine kuvvetin dışında kalıyor.

[@Lonewanderer30]

What mass is the orbiting star?

[@ESOobservatory]

About 76% the mass of our Sun. But it's more evolved than the Sun, it's running out of fuel and puffing up.

[@user-wx6gx9iu3h]

Hahaha

[@abinoypaulalex]

😅

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[@metamode_]

2000 light years is roughly 35 million earth years. And here we are hoping to find interstellar or intergalactic aliens LOL! 😂

[@longbranch4493]

What do you mean? Light years are a measure of distance, not time.

[@metamode_]

@@longbranch4493 Horishet bro! You mean you cant measure Light Years with Earth years? Oh well 😅

[@haikalmiftah2529]

​@@metamode_ So is the "Earth years" distance a distance which took 1 year using Earth's orbital velocity around the sun?

[@metamode_]

@@haikalmiftah2529 Its easier to just Google it instead of banting it here. There are tons of articles that calculating light years using earth years GMG!

[@longbranch4493]

@@metamode_ no, i meant literally what I asked. I thought that by an earth year you meant ~365 days. If so, then yes, you can't measure distance using a time unit. So, again, what did you mean?

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[@bbbenj]

Nice!