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.

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 ...

"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." ...

Most of the black holes discovered in space to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems consist of a black hole ...

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

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

Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture. This black ...

The conventional wisdom among astronomers is that black holes - those exceptionally dense objects with gravity so powerful ...

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 first is the outer boundary known as the event horizon where the gravitational ... a region that becomes infinitely ...