Black holes exert a tremendous influence on their surroundings, meaning that when they spin, they literally drag the very fabric of space and time around with them. That means nothing can sit still ...

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.

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

Earlier this month, a team of US National Science Foundation NOIRLab astronomers discovered a supermassive black hole, called ...

"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." ...

Some stars may transform into black holes without exploding into supernovae. Now, astronomers have finally spotted it as it ...

Astronomers have used a range of telescopes, including Hubble, to watch as particles dance around a neutron star collision ...

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 ...

A third, tenuously held companion to the known binary V404 Cygni may signal that at least some black holes form "gently." ...

Let’s go fly a (space) kite The team then wondered ... of triple system could have evolved and kept the outer star. [Related: Biggest black hole jets ever seen span 140 Milky Way galaxies.] ...

The gravitational field of a rotating black hole is powerful and strange. It is so powerful that it warps space and time back ...

Massive stars about eight times more massive than the sun explode as supernovae at the end of their lives. The explosions, ...