An international team of astronomers has conducted a multiwavelength study of an X-ray binary designated 1eRASS ...

"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." ...

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

One idea was that AT 2021hdr was a tidal disruption event (TDE) ,] where a star strays too close to a black hole and is ...

An artist's rendition of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni. This is the first time a black hole triple has been discovered. An artist's rendition of the black hole X-ray binary V404 Cygni.

A fresh analysis of decades-old X-ray black hole jet data has revealed bright, lumpy features with mysterious speed changes.

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 ...

An X-ray binary system composed of a black hole and a star in the process of being consumed turns out to have a third member circling. Unless some unlikely scenarios occurred, the existence of ...

"X-ray polarization provides a new way to examine ... among them Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-3, stellar-mass binary black hole ...

New research from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory uncovers fast-moving knots in black hole jets, highlighting differences in ...

This so-called "X-ray binary" of the black hole and its victim star were previously known, and the system has been well-studied. However, a deeper investigation performed by a team led by Kevin ...