Astrophysicists have discovered a “black hole triple,” where some delicate physics is keeping two stars located 8,000 light-years away finely tethered to a black hole.
Black holes are scary. The idea of anything being so powerful that not even light can escape its pull is enough to set the mood for Halloween. But not all black holes have the same origin stories. To explain the triple system’s existence, astrophysicists propose that this black hole formed gently.
