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

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

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 ...

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful ...

"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." ...

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

But in a new study, published Wednesday (Oct. 23) in the journal Nature, researchers discovered that one of these known binary systems, which contains the black hole V404 Cygni feasting on a ...

Cochran and A. Hatzes, and G. Marcy and R. P. Butler 16 Cygni B has two stellar companions: 16 Cygni A at a distance of ~900 AU, and 16 Cygni C at an angular separation of ~70 arc seconds ...

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 ...

An illustration shows the black hole of V404 Cygni feeding from a stellar victim as a more cautious star in the system keeps its distance. | Credit: NASA Astronomers have discovered the first ...