Mysterious new type of black hole discovered by Gaia, two such black holes lurking in Earth’s cosmic vicinity
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A novel class of black holes has been discovered, thanks to the ESA's Gaia Mission. The two members of the new family have already been identified, and they are both located closer to Earth than any other black hole that we are aware of. A group of astronomers examined the orbits of the stars that Gaia monitored and discovered that some of them appeared to be gravitationally influenced by large objects because of the way that they wobbled in the sky.