green and yellow tones near the centre of the image depict varying gas distributions throughout the region. The closest black ...

more than a billion stars, along with darker, dusty regions Gaia couldn't see through. With its greater sensitivity and longer wavelength coverage, NASA’s ... horizontal image with a dark ...

Dubbed Gaia BH1, the dormant black hole weighs around ... A star being sucked up by a nearby black hole. Image source: European Southern Observatory From that first analysis, the astronomers ...