NASA's Swift Observatory revealed twin 'monster' black holes devouring a gas cloud in a distant galaxy, creating recurring ...

has long been thought of as the nearest black hole to Earth, but that may not be the case. A star cluster just outside the ...

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

The image of Sagittarius A*, the black hole at the heart of the Milky Way, captured by the Event Horizon Telescope.

It has been a full year since we started the monster chopper and over the last month we completely striped it down and ...

"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." ...

For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space. This new system is about 8,000 light years away from Earth and is made up of a central black hole that is in the ...

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 ...

A team of astrophysicists, led by scholars from the Institute for Advanced Study, has developed an innovative technique to ...

Out of curiosity, Burdge reviewed an image of V404 Cygni -- a black hole about 8,000 light years from Earth that was one of the very first objects ever to be confirmed as a black hole, in 1992.

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 ...