Imagine waking up one morning to the news: a black hole is drifting close to our solar system. It sounds like the plot of a ...

So my part of the research for the first two Gaia black holes, Gaia BH1 and BH2, was arranging for radio telescope time to look at these objects in great detail, or this position of sky, for ...

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two systems discovered by Gaia hint at a survival mechanism.

See where stellar black hole "Gaia BH1" is located in the Milky Way in this zoom in video. As seen in this animation, a "sun-like" star" is orbiting the black hole, according to the Max Planck ...

So, Gaia BH2 might be farther from Earth than Gaia BH1, but the star’s stronger stream of particles made it a far better bet that we’d detect emission from accretion onto the black hole.

Gaia BH3 has a mass nearly 33 times that of the sun and is the largest known stellar black hole in the Milky Way galaxy. The closest black hole to the earth is Gaia BH1, which is located about ...