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"Neat! Gaia spots a 33 solar mass black hole in the Milky Way!

www.cosmos.esa.int/web/gaia/iow...

BH3 matches what is quite common in our gravitational-wave observations, but had yet to be discovered in our own galaxy

Paper: doi.org/10.1051/0004...

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