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

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

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

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

"We've never been able to do this before for an old black hole," Burdge said. "Now we know V404 Cygni is part of a triple, it ...

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Researchers have discovered a black hole born through a gentle core collapse rather than a violent supernova. Located in the ...

"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." ...

Researchers find a black hole that appears to have come into being through the collapse of the core of a large star in its ...

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 ...