{"id":27708,"date":"2025-11-19T07:10:45","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T01:40:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=27708"},"modified":"2025-11-20T14:47:41","modified_gmt":"2025-11-20T09:17:41","slug":"black-hole-triple-system","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/black-hole-triple-system\/","title":{"rendered":"Black hole Triple\u2019 System"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Black hole Triple\u2019 System:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li>The system comprises a <strong>black hole at its centre<\/strong>, currently in the process of consuming a small star spiralling very close to it.<\/li>\n<li>There is also a <strong>second star,<\/strong> which appears to be circling the black hole but is actually far away.<\/li>\n<li>The discovery of the system, located about 8,000 light years away from Earth has raised questions about how black holes are formed.<\/li>\n<li>Many <a href=\"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/upsc-exam\/black-hole\/\" target=\"_blank\">black holes<\/a> discovered until now have been part of binary systems, consisting of a black hole and a secondary object (such as a star or another black hole).<\/li>\n<li>But the black hole triple not only has one star which orbits the black hole about every 6.5 days, but also a more far-off star which orbits it every 70,000 years.<\/li>\n<li>It is situated in the <strong>constellation of Cygnus<\/strong>, the system features one of the oldest known black holes, <strong>the V404 Cygni<\/strong>, which is nine times as big as the Sun in our solar system.\n<ul>\n<li>V404 Cygni has two stars around it as the black hole <strong>did not arise from a supernova<\/strong>, which typically kicks away outer stars in the explosion.<\/li>\n<li>Instead, it was formed through another <strong>process called \u201cdirect collapse\u201d,<\/strong> where the star caves in after expending all its fuel, but does not explode.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<hr \/>\n<h3>Q1: What is Black hole?<\/h3>\n<p>These are formed after the supernova explosion when the core of a massive dying star more than 2.5 times the mass of the Sun collapses until an infinite density where gravity is so high that even light cannot escape.<\/p>\n<p><strong>News:<\/strong><a href=\"https:\/\/indianexpress.com\/article\/explained\/explained-sci-tech\/first-black-hole-triple-system-discovered-what-does-it-mean-9649210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">First \u2018black hole triple\u2019 system discovered: What does it mean?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Black hole Triple\u2019 System comprises a black hole at its centre, currently in the process of consuming a small star spiralling very close to it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":27709,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-27708","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/27709"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}