Gaia Data Release 4 previews

2024-04-16 Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin

16 April 2024

Gaia spots Milky Way's most massive black hole of stellar origin! It's 33 solar masses, dormant, the 2nd closest to Earth at ~2000 light years away, part of a wide binary with an old giant star, with an estimated age of 11 Gyr. Find full details in our story!

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2021-02-26 Matching observations to sources for Gaia DR4

26 February 2021

While the scientific community is analysing the first batch of the Gaia DR3 data, part of the Data Processing and Analysis Consortium (DPAC) is already engaged in the production of Data Release 4. The Intermediate Data Update (IDU) pipeline and the Data Processing Centre of Barcelona delivered the results of the first cross-match run in... read more