Astronomers have stumbled upon a pair of massive black holes in a distant galaxy that are triggering unusual bursts of light ...

"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." ...

Astronomers have witnessed a rare cosmic event a billion light-years away: two supermassive black holes orbiting each other ...

However, a study published Oct. 23 in Nature has found that the black hole binary system V404 Cygni, which contains a black hole and a small star, has an additional friend — a second star that ...

For the study, the researchers examined the binary black hole system V404 Cygni, which consists of a central black hole being orbited by two stars, with one orbiting in 6.5 days while the other takes ...

into a black hole, no mess, no fuss. The astrometry of V404 Cygni, with a Pan-STARRS image of the system, the trajectories of the stars in the field, and a zoom of the inner binary. (Burdge et al., ...

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 ...

The tidal event theory is still on the table, only it is now attributed not to an exploding star, but to a gas cloud that's bigger than the binary black hole system itself. The theory belongs to a ...

When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows the black hole of V404 Cygni feeding from a stellar victim as a more ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Scientists using observations from NASA's Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from a pair of monster black holes disrupting a cloud of gas in the center of a ...

The universe is home to many fascinating objects. R Aquarii is a binary star system with a red giant and a white dwarf. Omega ...