Many black holes detected to date appear to be part of a pair. These binary systems comprise a black hole and a secondary ...

For the first time, an international cadre of electrical engineers has developed a new method for photonic in-memory ...

Physicists at MIT and Caltech have discovered the first “black hole triple,” a formation more than 8,000 light years from ...

Since the new triple system includes a very far-off star, the system’s black hole was potentially born through that gentler ...

In 1995, astronomers confirmed the discovery of Gliese 229B, believed to be a single brown dwarf. Brown dwarfs are celestial ...

V404 Cygni, a black hole 8,000 light-years from Earth, was already famous in astronomical circles. But a recent discovery has ...

A system called V404 Cygni was thought to be a black hole and a companion star, but another star billions of kilometres away ...

MIT physicists have discovered the first-ever "black hole triple" system, challenging existing theories of black hole ...

On a mountaintop in northern Chile, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory, which holds the largest digital camera in the world, is ...