Extreme object
Gaia BH3
Gaia BH3 is a black hole 1 936 light-years away, weighing 33.1 Suns.
The heaviest black hole from a dead star in our galaxy, thirty-three Suns, found in 2024 in the Gaia data.
See it live
It is on the live 3D map, where it really is.
Key facts
- Kind
- Black hole
- Distance
- 1 936 light-years
- Mass
- 33.08 Suns
See it from here
Too faint for the eye; a telescope, or a long photograph, shows it.
How the map draws it
Drawn as a ring at its measured distance; a black hole has no shape to draw and a pulsar is far too small — the kind of thing, not this exact one.