Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...

There's evidence out there for the supernova model of black hole formation. This is when a dying star erupts in a colossal ...

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Caption Artist's impression of jet ejections in V404 Cygni. With our radio telescopes, we see individual bright clouds of plasma that have been ejected from the innermost regions, and redirected ...

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Scientists have found the first ever “black hole triple”.Many of the black holes previously found are thought to be part of a ...

"Overall, it's not surprising that black holes should be in triples, but what's surprising is that this system held onto the outer star after forming the black hole." ...

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture. This black ...