Astronomers have discovered a massive black hole jet that is three times bigger than the Milky Way. The jet is known as ...

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever ...

The world’s first ‘black hole bomb’ has been created, and while it sounds like something out of a movie, its implications are ...

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For decades, scientists have known black holes often come in pairs. These binary systems feature a black hole locked in a ...

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 ...

Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from Earth that experts say expands the current understanding of how black ...

this new triple system may be the first evidence of a black hole that formed from this more gentle process. “We think most black holes form from violent explosions of stars, but this discovery ...

Astronomers discovered the first "black hole triple system", some 7,800 light-years from Earth. The system, called V404 Cygni, was thought to be a black hole and a companion star, but a second ...

Here’s how it works. Astronomers have accidentally discovered the first-known "black hole triple" system, containing a dark void orbited by two stars. The unique configuration of this triad ...

Tucked within the intriguing corners of space, this microquasar not only holds a black hole, but is also associated with two stars. One star whirls in a tight dance around the black hole every 6.5 ...