An article published in the journal “Astronomy and Astrophysics Letters” reports the identification of a stellar black hole with a mass estimated to be approximately 33 times the Sun’s that was cataloged as Gaia BH3. A team of researchers used data collected by ESA’s Gaia space probe to find this black hole in the Milky Way’s halo, less than two thousand light-years from Earth. Its mass is remarkable for a stellar black hole and it has a companion, a very ancient star, as its age is estimated to be around 11 billion years.