In his 1948 book, The Stars in Our Heaven, Peter Lum wrote: “The Swan of Heaven is a long-necked bird in full flight down the Milky Way. He is … by far the most magnificent of the feathered creatures ...

There aren’t many developers that make arcade-style shoot-em-ups these days. The audience for one of gaming’s classic genres is small, but “Cygni: All Guns Blazing” aims to bring it to the new ...

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Stellar-mass black holes typically form after a star goes supernova and collapses. However, the discovery of the first-ever triple black hole system, V404 Cygni, complicates that picture. This black ...

Nearly 8,000 light-years away from Earth, astronomers have discovered a black hole that keeps rapidly swinging out jets of plasma clouds into space, according to a new study. The black hole, known as ...

Three’s company Artist's impression of V404 Cygni showing the black hole (right) surrounded by a swirling disc of matter that is being pulled from the nearby companion star (left). The distant ...

V404 Cygni is not just a regular member of any cosmic family. Tucked within the intriguing corners of space, this microquasar not only holds a black hole, but is also associated with two stars. One ...

Konami was once at the forefront of several gaming genres. It's the publisher that put out Castlevania and Contra, but younger generations may not be familiar with arcade space shooter classics like ...