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The heaviest known black hole in a binary star system in the Milky Way galaxy - EurekAlert

<p>The black hole, discovered using data from the European <em>Gaia </em>spacecraft, is more than three times heavier than the known black holes in our galaxy.</p> <p>An international team of researchers, with the participation of researchers from Tel Aviv University (TAU) led by Prof. Tsevi Mazeh, discovered a star which orbits a black hole 33 times heavier than the sun&rsquo;s mass, and lies 1500 light-years away from Earth. The black hole, discovered using data from the European <em>Gaia </em>spacecraft, is more than three times heavier than the other known black holes in our galaxy.</p>

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