Record breaker! The Milky Way’s most monstrous black hole is a sleeping giant lurking close to Earth
The Milky Way has a large newly discovered black hole, and it’s lurking close to Earth! This sleeping giant was discovered with the European space telescope Gaia, which tracks the movement of billions of stars in our Milky Way. Stellar-mass black holes form when a large star runs out of fuel and collapses. The new … Read more