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 ...

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 ...

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

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

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 ...

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

Now a surprising discovery about the black hole V404 Cygnus is expanding the picture ... away from the black hole (1 AU is the distance between the Earth and sun). In other words, the outer ...

The James Webb Space Telescope (JWST) and Chandra X-ray Observatory helped identify the “fastest-feeding black hole” - ...

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 ...