{"id":187521,"date":"2024-04-17T08:38:37","date_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:38:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-discovered-extremely-close-to-earth"},"modified":"2024-04-17T08:38:37","modified_gmt":"2024-04-17T13:38:37","slug":"most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-discovered-extremely-close-to-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2024\/04\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-discovered-extremely-close-to-earth","title":{"rendered":"Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered \u2018extremely close\u2019 to Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/most-massive-stellar-black-hole-in-the-milky-way-discovered-extremely-close-to-earth2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I found this on NewsBreak: Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered \u2018extremely close\u2019 to Earth.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>Astronomers have found the most massive stellar-mass <a href=\"https:\/\/www.livescience.com\/space\/astronomy\/black-holes\" rel=\"nofollow\"> black hole<\/a> ever discovered in our galaxy \u2014 and it\u2019s lurking \u201cextremely close\u201d to Earth, according to new research.<\/p>\n<p>The black hole, named Gaia BH3, is 33 times more massive than our sun. Cygnus X-1, the next-biggest stellar black hole known in our galaxy, weighs only 21 solar masses. The newfound black hole is located roughly 2,000 light-years away in the constellation Aquila, making it the second-closest known black hole to Earth.<\/p>\n<p>The researchers published their findings April 16 in the journal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eso.org\/public\/archives\/releases\/sciencepapers\/eso2408\/eso2408a.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\"> Astronomy and Astrophysics<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I found this on NewsBreak: Most massive stellar black hole in the Milky Way discovered \u2018extremely close\u2019 to Earth. Astronomers have found the most massive stellar-mass black hole ever discovered in our galaxy \u2014 and it\u2019s lurking \u201cextremely close\u201d to Earth, according to new research. The black hole, named Gaia BH3, is 33 times more [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":661,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,219],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cosmology","category-physics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/661"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}