Recently, a new black hole in the Milky Way galaxy was found by scientists. It is interesting to note that this is supposedly the biggest stellar black hole ever found. It is situated 2000 light years away from us, which is not a very great distance, and is at least 33 times larger than our Sun. When a star wobbled as it orbited the area, astronomers on the Gaia mission of the European Southern Observatory discovered the supermassive black hole.More on the massive revelationThe aforementioned black hole is known as Gaia BH3. It is the second-closest black hole to Earth and is located in the constellation Aquila. Astronomer Pasquale Panuzzo of the Observatoire de Pariss National Center for Scientific Research expressed amazement that such a large black hole could be found nearby, given that it had escaped detection up until this point.While examining data gathered by the European Space Agencys Gaia space telescope in advance of an impending data release to the scientific community, researchers unintentionally discovered the black hole. They were not expecting to find anything at first, but they were intrigued by a strange movement, which they thought was caused by Gaia BH3s gravitational pull on a nearby astronomical body.When stars go away, black holes are created. While some of these stars have no heavy elements and lose less mass than the majority, these stars inflate, lose mass, and cool to become white dwarfs. These stars are referred to as metal-free stars because they collapse on themselves to produce black holes rather than turning into white dwarfs.The Milky Way galaxy is thought to contain more than 50 star black holes, according to NASA scientists. Astronomers announced earlier in January that they had found the oldest black hole yet, which dates to a time more than 13 billion years ago in the early cosmos. The James Webb Space Telescope was used to observe the black hole, which is 13.4 billion light-years away and part of the ancient galaxy GN-z11.
