Recently discovered black hole is part of a nearby disrupted star cluster, study finds
Gaia DR3 extinction corrected color-magnitude diagram (CMD) showing the location of the Gaia BH3 companion (red cross) and ED-2 members (B23) as blue and empty circles. Credit: arXiv (2024). DOI: 10.48550/arxiv.2404.11604 European astronomers have investigated a recently detected black hole designated Gaia BH3. In their results, they found that the black hole is associated with