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 ...

New research sheds light on how a pair of unusual black holes may have been able to keep their companion stars alive — and at a distance.

However, a study published Oct. 23 in Nature has found that the black hole binary system V404 Cygni, which contains a black hole and a small star, has an additional friend — a second star that ...

Scientists using observations from NASA’s Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory have discovered, for the first time, the signal from ...

Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary object — such as a star, a much denser neutron star, or another black ...

Here's how the process unfolds. The story begins with two black holes orbiting far from each other in long, lazy circles. They could have been born as a binary pair of stars, or they may have just ...

The new system holds a central black hole in the act of consuming a small star that's spiraling in very close to the black hole, every 6.5 days—a configuration similar to most binary systems.

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 ...