Unsurprisingly, many black holes have stellar companions trapped in tight orbits, but perhaps counterintuitively, astronomers have never seen a triple system with a black hole—until now.

In a recent study, scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and the California Institute of Technology (Caltech) have discovered a black hole triple system. This is the ...

Credits: Jorge Lugo. Physicists at MIT and Caltech have made an unexpected discovery—a “black hole triple” system, the first of its kind ever found. While most black holes detected so far ...

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Astronomers have revealed a remarkable cosmic discovery: the first known black hole triple system. This unique find, identified as V404 Cygni, is located 8,000 light-years away in our own Milky Way.

However, contrary to this widely held belief, MIT scientists recently discovered this “black hole triple” – a system that contains a central black hole in the act of consuming a small star ...

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Astrophysicists from Caltech and MIT report that they have observed for the first time a "black hole triple"-a system of three stars, one of which is a black hole. Prior to the discovery, this black ...

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For the first time, physicists have observed a “black hole triple” in space. This new system is about 8,000 light years away from Earth and is made up of a central black hole that is in the ...

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