Caption An animation showing the Cygnus X-1 system, consisting of a black hole in orbit with a giant star. Recent observations by radio telescopes have found the system is 20 per cent further away ...

The "Galaxy of Horrors" is an array of vintage-style horror movie-themed posters to show us what nightmares exist in space.

What Was the First Black Hole Ever Discovered? The first accepted black hole was Cygnus X-1. Discovered during a 1971 rocket flight, Cygnus X-1 is one of the strongest X-ray sources detectable ...

Now, according to a new paper in the journal Nature, the black hole V404 Cygnus has two stars orbiting around it at varying ...

Researchers spotted a second distant star orbiting a well-known black hole and its stellar companion in a never-before-seen ...

The research team studied data from IXPE's observations of 12 black holes, among them Cygnus X-1 and Cygnus X-3, stellar-mass binary black hole systems about 7,000 and 37,000 light-years from ...

Two black holes in distinct cosmic events challenge theories, from multiple star devouring to a rare triple system.

Astronomers have found a black hole in the Cygnus constellation formed without a supernova. This unique system includes a black hole and two stars. The black hole, feeding off a nearby red giant ...

Just in time for Halloween, two black holes are in the news.

Cygnus X-1, a monstrous black hole, lurks 6,000 light-years away, ready to devour anything that ventures too close. ((NASA/JPL-Caltech / NASA)) The agency released the "Galaxy of Horrors," an ...

A "black hole triple" system has been discovered for the first time, scientists announced. Black holes have only been spotted on their own or in a binary until this discovery, with a single star ...