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 ...

XRISM allowed astronomers to track plasma as it circled the supermassive black hole at a distance of around 0.1 light-years ...

This makes BH3 the largest known stellar-mass black hole in the Milky Way, supplanting the previous record holder, Cygnus X-1 ...

It's through this process that astronomers first identified black holes with the famous case of Cygnus X-1, one of the brightest sources of X-rays in our sky. In the midst of this feeding frenzy ...

Working off of Albert Einstein’s theory of gravity, the Australian physicist Ludwig Flamm suggested that a spacetime conduit could connect one side of a hole to the other. While black holes suck ...

The X-Ray Imaging and Spectroscopy Mission (XRISM) has revealed the structure, motion and temperature of the material around ...

1). While current X-ray observatories cannot directly image the accretion disk, X-ray spectra can be used to learn about the spacetime (e.g., is the black hole spinning?) and accretion disk close to ...