Milky Way galaxy

[ad_1] Astronomers at the European Space Agency (ESA) have identified the biggest stellar black hole, named Gaia BH3, discovered in the Milky Way, with a mass 33 times that of the Sun. This black hole was detected “by chance” during data collection from ESA’s Gaia mission and it imposes an odd ‘wobbling’ motion on the companion star orbiting it.“Remarkably, this black hole is also extremely close to us —…

[ad_1] In a first, ESA’s Gaia mission researchers have discovered a huge black hole that is of stellar origin, hiding in plain sight in our very own Milky Way Galaxy. This sleeping giant was found in the constellation Aquila and that is just under 2000 light-years away from Earth. The intriguing part is that galaxies of such nature have not been found in the Milky Way before. They were…

[ad_1] New Delhi, Earliest “building blocks” of our Milky Way galaxy have been identified from 12-13 billion years ago, which is very close in time to when the universe’s first galaxies started to form, according to a new research. HT Image Naming these groups of stars ‘Shakti’ and ‘Shiva’, astronomers said the findings are the equivalent of “finding traces of an initial settlement that grew into a large present-day…