Black holes are regions of space where gravity is so strong that not even light can escape from their vicinity. Binary black ...

Stars in binaries with black holes usually suffer gruesome fates, but two systems discovered by Gaia hint at a survival ...

NASA's IXPE (Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer) has helped astronomers better understand the shapes of structures essential ...

AT 2021hdr is a binary supermassive black hole (BSMBH) system in the center of a galaxy 1 billion light-years away, in the Cygnus constellation. In 2021, researchers observing it using NASA’s Zwicky ...

XRISM’s detailed study of Cygnus X-3, a unique binary system 32,000 light-years away, reveals complex gas dynamics driven by ...

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating binary ... this system, a suspected black hole and a massive star ...

To resolve the black hole, they used the Event Horizon Telescope, a global radio telescope array with an effective aperture ...

Using the Japanese-led X-ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM), astronomers have taken a deep look into a fascinating binary system that is thought to contain a "hidden" black hole and a ...

Astronomers discover unique collision between black hole jet and unidentified object in Centaurus A galaxy, shedding new ...

Some black holes, bound by gravity, rotate around each other.

causing it to merge with the black hole. In other cases, the ejection of material causes the smaller star to simply be kicked out of the system altogether. And in some cases so much material pours ...