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." ...

Astronomers have stumbled upon something truly remarkable: a black hole that's not just part of a binary system, but part of ...

Researchers have discovered something groundbreaking in the world of astrophysics—an incredible system where not one, but a ...

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

"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." ...

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 ...

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 ...