In a "rite of passage," the JAXA/NASA X-ray telescope XRISM has mapped in detail Cygnus X-3, a curious binary system with a ...

Under the right circumstances, dust and gas falling into these galactic cores can form a disk of hot material around the ...

Buried in the treasure trove of the Gaia catalog were two strange black hole systems. These were black holes orbiting ...

The Japan-led XRISM (X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission) observatory has captured the most detailed portrait yet of gases ...

Black holes expel powerful jets of charged particles that lead to luminous bursts of gamma rays, all made possible by each ...

A black hole's destructive power unfolds as scientists discover a stellar collision in a galaxy’s core. A torn-apart star ...

New research uncovers how black holes inherit magnetic fields from collapsing neutron stars, explaining their powerful jets.

Astounding simulation shows magnetic fields create fluffy, not flat, accretion disks around supermassive black holes, ...

However, the distant star has remained gravitationally bound to the black hole. What is a stellar-mass black hole? A stellar-mass black hole is the result of the collapse of a massive star at the end ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

This research has only studied 12 black holes, among them Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-3, stellar-mass binary black hole systems about 7,000 and 37,000 light-years from Earth, respectively ...