Gaia BH1

Name: Gaia BH1

Alternate name: Gaia DR3 4373465352415301632

Category: Stellar Mass Black Hole (~10 solar masses)

• Binary system with a solar mass star

Distance from Earth: 1,560 light years

First Discovered: 2022, when ESA's Gaia Space Telescope observed the abnormal motion of a star (which was in a binary system with Gaia BH1)

Discovered by: Las Campanas Observatory, Gemini Observartory

Galactic Longitude: 22.63° 

Galactic Latitude: 18.05°