When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. An illustration shows the black hole of V404 Cygni feeding from a stellar victim as a more ...

Some black holes, bound by gravity, rotate around each other, as shown in this simulated image. Simulating eXtreme Spacetimes Lensing (SXS), CC BY-SA Black holes are regions of space where gravity is ...

Chinese astronomers may have discovered a never-before-seen triple black hole system. The team identified this triplet, which is locked in a complex "waltz," after spotting a hidden supermassive black ...

Astronomers have discovered the first known triple black hole system within our Milky Way galaxy, about 8,000 light-years from Earth. This remarkable system, centered around V404 Cygni, consists of a ...

Despite their destructive forces, black holes are often seen in with a companion, such as a star, neutron star, white dwarf, or even another black hole. However, a study published Oct. 23 in Nature ...

If you know anything about black holes, it's that they have extraordinary gravitational pull, drawing in distant objects and devouring them. Unsurprisingly, many black holes have stellar companions ...

Black holes are some of the most mysterious and awe-inspiring celestial objects in science, and while pairs of black holes or a black hole orbiting another object like a star, known as binary black ...

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 hints that the black hole was ...

Every galaxy has a supermassive black hole at its center, much like every egg has a yolk. But sometimes, hens lay eggs with two yolks. In a similar way, astrophysicists like us who study supermassive ...

Three’s company Artist's impression of V404 Cygni showing the black hole (right) surrounded by a swirling disc of matter that is being pulled from the nearby companion star (left). The distant ...

In 2020 a team led by European Southern Observatory (ESO) astronomers reported the closest black hole to Earth, located just 1000 light-years away in the HR 6819 system. But the results of their study ...